Showing posts with label Sudbury life drawing group. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sudbury life drawing group. Show all posts

Monday, February 17, 2020

New model and some dramatic poses

What the post brought, Emily G, pastel drawing in altered sketchbook
It's always fun to draw a new model in Sudbury Life Drawing Group. Emily G is a performance artist who works mostly with children. I was on the side of the room with the light at my back, close to the model, so for once I could see really well. That didn't mean my drawings were better, though. Of the seven I made, these three were the best. Two ten-minute poses and the portrait which was about 25 mins. Emily has some large tattoos.  You can see one peeking over her shoulder.
10 minute pose, Emily G, charcoal on paper

Head back, Emily G, charcoal on paper
Poor Emily found almost immediately that her neck was hurting in this pose, so she tilted her head back further... rather than change the shapes, I left the head unfinished. 

I'm not sure when I made these  pastel drawings in my altered sketchbook, A Bold Venture, of Terry… it may have been the same day as what happened next.
A Shattering Blow, Terry, pastel drawing in altered sketchbook

Quenched Flames, pastel drawing in altered sketchbook

A Friend in Need, pastel drawing in altered sketchbook
The last time I drew Terry I began by covering my paper in vine charcoal and used the subtractive method of drawing to begin. As it turned out, that was a good warm-up for Terry's unusual scenario next...
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Terry had brought a big piece of plastic sheeting which he draped over himself. It forced even the most figurative of us to work more abstractly.


Monday, March 11, 2019

Drawing the model like a still life

 Having spent the last few days making lots of little still life drawings, directly, I wanted to think of the model as a still life today and see what that frame of mind would do to the drawings. I moved around the paper looking for shapes and colours, tones and light - swapping pastels, adding ink, beginning with ink, Using a big fat brush, working small, smaller, bigger - trying to hold the pastel gently, to use both the end and the side, to keep it dry and to work into wet and to think about the edges. This is the order of the poses. The first was 15 minutes then Sue decided we needed some quickies - 3 minutes, then back to two fifteens and finishing with a thirty.