Continuing the life drawing theme from yesterday, here are life drawings in charcoal. I have a passion for wind instruments and loved drawing a cello. It was also a privilege to have witnessed a life model courageous enough to show her mastectomy scar, hope I did her justice.
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I dove into my recorded programme archive today to find the BBC Life Drawing Live which was shown in May. Lesson learned, it’s easier to draw from when one can watch the pose cam, but with the pause button and a stop watch, I managed marvellously (I’ll be doing the same when I get to the February programme!).
These poses were a little longer than yesterday (8-19 mins) and were mainly in charcoal, with one in pastel pencil. Here are my first few drawings:
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I tuned into the BBC iPlayer for a Life Drawing Live session which was streamed live earlier this month across two channels (one showing the poses from one still camera, and the other showing the artists drawing as well as the models) for today’s 30 Day Creative Gathering drawings. It was the first time I’ve actually taken advantage of these BBC sessions and so I’m glad I did. I have previous programmes recorded and I may well just dip into those now. The poses ranged from 1 to 14 minutes long and were based on poses used by well-known painters from history – here are some of my charcoal sketches from the session:
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Continuing the David Park-inspired life drawing session outlined in yesterday’s blog post, we turned our attention to the application of colour. Gary Long showed us some of his paintings, as well as those of David Park and the other San Francisco Bay Area painters to give us an idea of the techniques used. Gary used gouache for his paintings but in the absence of that medium here, I used watercolour. Not quite as opaque, but I was able to block areas in accordingly. Here are my paintings:
It was lovely to be life drawing again, albeit from a screen. I treasure these sessions and don’t take their happening for granted. To be able to take part in something at the other end of the country from my studio is simply fabulous.
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I delighted in treating myself to an online life drawing session with my favourite art school this week: St Ives School of Painting. The session was hosted by Gary Long, who regards the life drawings of David Park, one of the San Francisco Bay Area painters as a key influence on his own work. Indeed, Gary nearly studied in San Francisco himself before his life took him to another part of the world to study instead. Gary focused on the life drawing techniques of David Park during this session.
The first part of the session started with loose outlines in pencil, as we were encouraged to view these as preliminary drawings for any paint that may be overlaid afterwards. These are my drawings:
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