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.
Tag: pastel
Naked people in Pawlett…
Spent yesterday life-drawing… Even though I can hardly ever get to the life drawing classes, I still seem to have quite a few drawings around now. Occasionally I frame up a collection of them, but have a lot of framed stuff at the moment. So as an experiment, I have just spent some time putting these up for sale on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/nancyfarmer?section_id=5955658 They are all in pencil, and except for the sketch above they also have a little tone added in pastel, applied on a cotton bud. This, to date, is the best medium I have found that will just…
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…
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…
Art by Nancy Farmer 