Life Drawing Sketches, Pawlett, March 2012

Well, the flower fairy of monkshood is finished, but I haven’t yet had time to scan her. In the meantime, I went life drawing on Saturday, so I thought I would show you the results. I hadn’t managed to get to any life drawing sessions since about October of last year so I was quite pleased to get some results I was happy with – not so much a lack-of-practice thing as the fact that some days just don’t go right with life drawing! Anyway, here they are: They’re all in pencil, with a little pastel added with a cotton…

Progress on the Poison Flower Fairies: Monkshood

So… I have managed to begin painting the first of the Poison Flower Fairies. I had this idea back in about August of last year, collected many photographs as the flowers came into season, finally worked up some sketches in January and I have at last begun to put actual paint on actual paper, seven months later… The sketch for this one appeared in this blog entry: https://nancyfarmer.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/sketches-for-the-poison-flower-fairies/ …so, straight into painting. Here is the picture drawn out and the tones put down in Prussian Blue. This is all gouache paint, except for occasionally where it’s watercolour. This is under-painting…