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| ink and pastel on pastel ground on paper 16 x 16 cm |
I was describing to my friend, Jo, today about how when I draw I feel I am struggling against the materials. It is as if through the struggle I make sense of what I am seeing. It seems like the material I use results in a different way of seeing the subject.
Today at life drawing in Sudbury as I prepared my materials for a three hour session, I decided on ink and pastels. Jason Bowyer held a workshop in the summer and I found mixing those materials was an exciting lens to look through. I think tonally and about the shapes and as I work and layer marks, colours and tones on top.
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ink and pastel on pastel ground on paper 16 x 16 cm
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ink and pastel on pastel ground on paper 17 x 25 cm
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ink and pastel on pastel ground on paper 16 x 16 cm
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ink and pastel on pastel ground on paper 14 x 13 cm
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On Friday I went back to the NEAC life drawing class with Mick Kirkbride. I thought we would be working in one of the gallery spaces and so did Mick so when it was changed back tot he usual space which is smaller, we had a bit of a squeeze to fit and I opted to sit in a chair to help out. I was looking up at the model. The lights had been taken down but I liked my view and the lighting was fine for me. I began in charcoal and moved onto pastel.
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| charcoal on paper 20 x 30 cm |
Mary, the booked model, had goofed and was not in the country so we had a stand-in model at the last second. Roberta had modeled years ago but had not modeled in ten years - she was fabulous on Friday. Someone said she was like a statue and that's why I decided to do the second drawing, from the same place in my London altered sketchbook: The Silent Traveller in London' on the page about statues.
Since making the scans below I have recalibrated my colour profile so the images below are not very good… Still they show monotypes made last week in life drawing where I struggle the most to amek the material become the model.
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| montype 10 x 20 cm |
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