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College – Still Life Week 4
Here’s something I did earlier this week. It’s week 4 of the still life module and we’re working through the basics of line, tone and form. This is the exercise to bring them all together:
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College – Still Life – Weeks 6 & 7
It’s the end of term and hand-in time – and here’s what I’m handing in for my still life module. Hopefully you can appreciate that it’s a close up of a hydrangea head, and see that we’ve been...
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College – Life Drawing – Weeks 1-7
Well I’ve just finished the first life drawing module of the course, and we were assessed today. Indications are I’m doing very well… Perhaps you would like to judge for yourself? These are phone...
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Life Drawing – Term 2 – Week 3
Here’s my life drawing from this week at college. We are experimenting with expressive strokes in black Quink ink washes, and this week added in rust colours using oil pastels. The black Quink is...
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Mixed Media Still Life #2
I’ve done another still life this week – this time using oil pastel resist technique. The objects were drawn in oil pastels first and then a dye colour wash applied for the fore and background. A bit...
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Mixed Media Still Life #3
It’s Friday, and another mixed media lesson This week we had to do a candle wax resist rendition of the still life – clear wax on whitish paper made the initial stages very tricky. However, as the dye...
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Two Point Perspective
I’ve spent all afternoon on my still life homework for the holidays… an exercise in two point perspective. An hour of reading, a couple of outline sketches and some more research led to a couple of...
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Drypoint print – the gallery editions
As I mentioned in my original post, I planned to further work on my drypoint prints, adding tone and colour. Here is a gallery of the results – and the bottom right is the print I have given away,...
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They’re not tangle patterns… but they’re close!
Me again – I’ve survived a three day stint demonstrating and teaching at the NEC Hobbycraft exhibition, and it’s back to college and catch up time! Last week we were set loose to develop our own style...
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Mandalas
I’ve noticed recently that on drawing lines, such as writing or outlining, I’ve had a noticeable (though very minor) intention tremor. Now, this may be medication side effects, but I decided it was...
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