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Tag Archives: Painting
Life drawing. The character actor at rest.
The character actor at rest. Acrylics and Chinagraph on watercolour paper. Around A3.Such a pleasure drawing Robin. This session was loosely based on some of Francis Bacon’s set ups; I couldn’t seem to come up with anything quite as dark. … Continue reading
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Tagged character actor, drawing, figurative painting, life drawing, Life model, Painting
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Life Drawing. Man with red, man with blue.
Man on blue. Acrylic and pencil on prepared paper. This week I wanted to focus on skin colours. We were in a big room and the model was fairly far away, so no distortions. There were a lot of blue … Continue reading
Life Drawing. Lady in grey, red and green
Friday life drawing has started again, this time in a small group of talented artists at St.Lukes, South Islington. http://www.slpt.org.uk I miss friendly The Mary Ward Centre with it’s purpose built life room. The tutor is the same, the great … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, drawing, figurative art, life drawing, Painting, st.Lukes
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Life Drawing. Here’s Looking At You. Here’s looking at you. Oil on canvas. 90x90cm.This probably the last painting I’ll make in the wonderful life room of the Mary Ward Centre, Queens Square, London. Friday nights will never be the same. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, figurative art, Male nude, Mary Ward centre, oil on canvas, Painting
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Life drawing. In the tree plus other works.
Paintings that aren’t bad but weren’t finished, got lost or were overlooked. In the tree. oil on canvas.After the session in the life room, what to make with the image you’ve created? On this painting, I made sketches – at … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Life painting, Mary Ward centre, oil on canvas, Painting
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Balance A.
Balance A. Oil on canvas. 40 x 35cm.At the Mary Ward Centre the theme was Red. I had an old canvas stumbled in blue oil paint.This shows through on some of the figure, giving the shadows depth. originally there was … Continue reading
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Balance
Balance. Oil and pencils on canvas board. 42 x 32 cm.A balance of hot and cold colours, detail and blank space. The board was primed with thick acrylic which soaked the oil paint up, making the paint look like dry … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, composition, life drawing, Mary Ward centre, oil on canvas, Painting
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Green, blue, white.
Green, Blue, White. Acrylic of grey-green then Prussian blue and Zinc white oil paint sometimes thinned with Walnut oil or Liquin on canvas. 76 x 90cm.An exercise in painting two colours onto a third. If I was to start again, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Life painting, londonart, Mary Ward centre, Painting, Prussian blue
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A tree as metaphor
Growth. Japanese ink and pencil on old watercolour paper. 22 x 22cm.This was given to an old friend who has been having a time of it lately. I was thinking of how this tree has had branches snap, has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, drawing, Hampstead garden suburb, Painting, tree art
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Life drawing. Lady of the orange, grey and blue.
Lady of the orange, grey and blue. Acrylic, pencil, and thinned oil paint on paper. 90 x 70 cm.The last pose of the night with a thin blue ribbon draped over the model. It was important to have the line … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, figurative art, life drawing, London art, Painting, The Mary Ward Centre
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Life Drawing. Storms
Stormy Weather. Ink, acrylic, pencil, oil pastel, compressed charcoal and thinned oil paint on paper. 90 x 70 cm.This started off at home with some ink I had out and didn’t want to waste. This ink was splatted over the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, figurative art, life drawing, Painting, Tivoli
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Life drawing. Actor in mono.
Recently I’ve been taking my time on finishing paintings started in the life room (two weeks worth are still needing more work). I decided to make something quickly that would be fine without any adjustment. Out came a bottle of … Continue reading
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5 Portraits.
Here are 5 portraits made over the last few months. 1. Green Eye 2. Uncomfortable 3. Leaning 4. Laptop 5. Haircut Three self portraits (I’m now wearing vari-focal glasses, which makes for some fun distortions), my daughter and my sister. … Continue reading
Zoom lifedrawing. Dryads in Berlin (at the edge of the Grunewald forest)
Dryads in Berlin (at the edge of the Grunewald forest). Acrylics and pencil on prepared paper. 90 x 70cm. The same model (‘Y’ from Berlin) posed twice, each pose was for 20 minutes. The figure on the left was originally … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin art, Dryad, Figurative, life drawing, matisse, Otto Mueller, Painting
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Zoom life drawing and after.
A and Michelangelo. Acrylic and pencil on paper.This developed over the week. Taking different Michelangelo sculptures and inserting them into the composition. I didn’t know where it was going but it arrived at this state. The model ‘A’ is still … Continue reading
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Zoom life drawing class 1. The Goddess Tara (on green).
The Goddess Tara (on green). Acrylics on paper. 100 x 70cm.I heard some of the great radio talks ‘The History of the World in 100 Objects’ again this week. One episode was about a bronze statue of the Buddhist goddess … Continue reading
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IEA. Triple portrait.
IEA. Oil on canvas. A triple portrait of my children. Made over the last year. In an old frame. Some details.
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Tagged antique frame, artist, figurative art, oiloncanvas, Painting, portrait
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Still life with artists.
Still life with artists. Acrylic on paper. 35 x 53cm.This was created in an art class around my house with my children and tow others who are in our bubble. Very enjoyable. The boards hide my fellow artists. The objects … Continue reading
Neil and dogs in the sunshine. 5. Details.
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