I did some more life teaching last week and also did another painting. This one took about three hours on Thursday afternoon, it’s oil on mdf which I primed with gesso. Water soluble oils anyhow, cheap and easy! It’s of our model for two of the days Emma, for whom we arranged a nice colourful bed, flowers and fruit backdrop:
I did a preliminary drawing for this one to try and work out the foreshortening:
Here are some quick life studies done at the beginning of the workshop:
This is an acrylic painting of mine I found in a rack at the school which I did a few months ago, kind of a half-drawing. I find acrylic a difficult medium to paint with as the paint dries so fast and it’s quite hard to paint over what you’ve done without the colours getting very dull. Anyway, this is OK, because there isn’t much paint, it’s of a model called Marcia:
I’m doing a lot more painting now so I might make a new blog, or maybe I’ll just keep putting them up here. 90% of writing is reading, or so it is said, well I think 90% of painting is probably drawing too, but what do I know?
a small drawing blog 