28 Drawings Later: February Drawing Challenge
February 01, 2012
I hope this is going to force me to draw or paint something every day.
Day 1 of the February Drawing Challenge. Used luscious new Maimeri Blu watercolours and oil pastel
Day 2. Cheated a bit and painted this from a photograph
Day 3. Gorgeous sunlight coming through my studio window – fab green lighty shadow
Day 4. Really enjoying this challenge…recycling old life drawings to paint on
Day 5. Eggs painted on recycled life drawing. Next day’s eggs may be broken…
Day 6. Life Drawing class today at English Bridge with a brand new model called Maria..
Day 7. Broken egg painted on another recycled life drawing.
Day 8. Satsumas on old life drawing.
Day 9. Pear on old life drawing.
Day 10. Nest on old gesture drawing. Paper used was really thick lining paper (wallpaper)..fabulous to draw on.
Day 11. Red onions ditto day 10
Day 12. Banana
Day 13. George. 13 mins. acrylics. English Bridge Life Class today.
Day 14. Dog. Pencil and collage.
Day 15. Sheep. Acrylic with pencil and collage.
Day 16. Pig. Really struggled with this one and not terribly happy with the outcome…collage, newspaper, pink tissue and flowery wrapping paper
Day 17. Cow. pencil and collage.
Day 18. Another cow. Acrylic and collage.
Day 19. Back to fruit….Pomegranate drawing on recycled gestural life drawing.
Day 20. More pomegranates, this time drawn with pastels on black paper.
Day 21. Becky. Life drawing 20 mins using acrylics.
Day 22. Fruit again…Strawberries (mixed media) on recycled gesture drawing.
Day 23. More fruit..melon slice with watercolour/acrylic and collage on old life drawing.
Day 24. Cherry Cupcake.
Day 25. Lemons.
Day 26. Garlic. Running out of old life drawings to paint on….
Day 27. Portrait.
LAST ONE!! Day 28. There have been a lot of banana drawings on this challenge, so much so that it’s become a bit of a joke…therefore I couldn’t resist a banana split for my very last work….Ceci ne pas une banane
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More life drawing…
June 15, 2011
Ruth is a great model – very long body though so it’s quite difficult to get the proportions right. She did 7×5 minute poses to warm us up and then 3×25 minutes. I made a complete hash of the last pose but did like the wash in her armpit so I’ve cropped out the rubbish (don’t you just love photoshop!!)
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Life Drawing at the Hive
June 03, 2011
It was great to get back to life drawing on Tuesday night at the Hive. I hadn’t been for ages and it felt like coming home! Kate was the model and she is fantastic to draw…very pale almost alabaster skin which shines under the lights… and a beautiful back!
We started with 30 second warm up gestures and progressed through 4 minute poses to 25 and 30 minutes. I was using my usual acrylics with an old faithful thin brush which has long bristles so can be a bit unpredictable but gives a great line.
Kate’s dressing gown is a rich greeny-blue colour which was reflecting onto her skin..lovely bouncy colours!
