Today I have mostly been life drawing, and I thought it really was about time I put some content up here (most of my artwork ends up on my other site now – http://www.waterdrawn.com). This is Alison, in pencil on paper….
Tag: life drawing
Life Drawing Today
Just a few naked people drawings I did today… my favourite thing to draw! All in pencil. I have a few life drawings for sale in my Etsy shop: http://www.nancyfarmertwo.etsy.com, but these aren’t there so if anyone is interested, please email me.
Nudity!
I spent Saturday drawing naked people again. Life drawing is really excellent practice, but does mean that I end up with a lot of drawings, and not everyone wants naked people on their walls… however since, curiously, ‘nude pencil drawing’ is one of the most commonly used search terms for people finding my shop for original artwork on on Etsy.com, there must be some people out there who do. And some of these drawings I’m quite pleased with, so I’ve just put a few up in the shop here. This is not the same shop as the one with all…
A spot of Life Drawing
Life drawing today, and I hardly ever get round to posting the results on the blog, so here they are, plus a couple from the last time I managed to make it to a session. The medium is pencil, with a little pastel applied with a cotton bud.
Filth, depravity and a light lunch with coffee
I spent an enjoyable few hours at Ilminster Arts Centre (where I currently have a solo exhibition), in my ‘artist-in-lurking’ capacity. The exhibition is stewarded and I don’t have to be there at all, but I feel it does no harm to spend some time there on hand to talk to people should they wish to. On occasion the mere being there and talking to people has led to sales which I am sure would not have happened without the human connection. People often like to how how it’s done, sometimes even why it’s done (a more difficult question). Which…
Life Drawings at Pawlett 16.3.13
What with posting about my pet plagiarist, I didn’t have time to post these drawings last weekend, but I did finally get to another Life Drawing session. These were mostly not the length of poses that I like best – the 4 short 5-minute poses are the sort of thing I like, but then the same seated pose for… er… what seemed like a very long time, meant I had to move round and draw from different angles, which explains the two pairs of near-identical poses. But still, it did for once mean I put some effort into actually drawing…
Life Drawings in Pawlett
This morning’s work: a few life drawings… sorry, short on words this time, but lots of pictures of naked Dave! Pencil and a bit of pastel applied with a cotton bud…
Don’t try this at home…
The June sketch of my calendar pictures: 6 fairies for the sixth month. A teetering tower of bodies all balanced in the most unlikely fashion, topped with a wine-pourer for a little twist of extra silliness and perhaps to dispel an impression that this is all about yoga. (I have nothing against yoga, I was very enthusiastic about yoga for nearly a year, once, and can probably still do a passable headstand, but it’s all a bit too pure and wholesome for my art!) Of course my title applies to the carefully balancing of one person (or fairy) on top…
What’s the point of Life Drawing?
This is not a rhetorical question. I don’t mean it in the sense that one might ask ‘What’s the point of Simon Cowell?’ because there is undoubtedly a lot of point in life drawing; in fact there are a number of different very good points to life drawing, and that is exactly my problem. I don’t draw from life when I compose my paintings. I may occasionally grimace in the mirror or hold up a hand or an elbow to see the outline of it at a certain angle, but on the whole I am drawing (no pun intended) upon…
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…
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