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Life Drawing 25.05.18. Nearly fainting…

Posted on June 8, 2018 by
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Life drawing 09.02.2018. The Look | The shadow.

Posted on February 12, 2018 by

So, you have a scene. What do you paint? What do you leave in or take out? What colours to use? All in an hour. The mixture of decisions and the muscle memory is thrilling to me. So, here are … Continue reading →

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Life Drawing 1: The blue & red rooms

Posted on January 19, 2018 by

  A detail of the above. This figure was painted first, with a large expanse waiting for the next pose. Both took 30 minutes each. Poses in the red room. The horizontal line connects the two poses. Three figures on … Continue reading →

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Life Drawing 13.10.17. On dark ground.

Posted on October 16, 2017 by

Getting to the Mary Ward Centre early, I picked my place, set my easel up and painted both sheets of paper a very dark grey (a Valspar tester pot named ‘La Plancha’). The living, the dead and the plastic, reflected. … Continue reading →

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Life drawing 29.09.17. The positive man.

Posted on October 6, 2017 by

It’s good to meet someone who loves their job. This model was really happy with the whole process and the end result that he had help create. This was a quick pose painted on prepared paper. The quick excercises and … Continue reading →

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Life drawing 22.09.17. The actress.

Posted on October 2, 2017 by

The first of the new sessions. This was made by using a large angled flat-head brush loaded with tester pot grey. In two minutes I had the size and composition. Then with different sized pastels the details were worked out. … Continue reading →

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Hemingway painting 1. Studies.

Posted on July 3, 2017 by

This is the story of an oil painting. A painting of Ernest Hemingway, commissioned by a major patron of mine. There will be 5 posts, this one is about the research, sketches and studies. An oil study with pencil, around … Continue reading →

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