Lessons in Perseverance
I haven’t posted very much lately because I’ve been experimenting with a few larger paintings and taking a little more time over them. At least three didn’t really go anywhere and I scraped them down ready to start afresh. This…
Who’s That?
This is a small (8″ x 6″) self portrait sketch that I completed pretty quickly at the end of the day as a way to use up some left over paint. Everything is ‘in the ball-park’ in terms of placement,…
An Afterthought of Limes
This is a quick sketch that wasn’t intended at all for today’s painting exercise. I wanted to start work on a larger piece, and began the day by arranging and re-arranging still life objects again and again. Nothing made me…
Sunflowers
I seem to have a bit of thing for flower painting at the moment. These were starting to wilt a little, so I laid them out in the sun for a while before painting them, and will now see how…
Freesias in a tall vase
A very painterly approach to capturing these freesias and the soft lighting that the day provided, and I wanted to keep a fresh and spontaneous feeling to the work. I couldn’t see a lot of detail or definition within the…
Stocks in the Silver Coffee Pot
It’s been a while since my last post as I was unfortunately struck down by a summer bug which has taken a few weeks to get over. I’ve slowly been getting back to normal and started back at the easel…
Feet, feet, feet
A new figure study, which in the most part I am pleased with. It’s not without its problems, and with more time I would have resolved (or tried to) the areas that are not quite right. Again, I left the…
Almost, but not quite
Here’s a new portrait sketch that I’m starting to appreciate a little more now I have finished working on it. It’s close in likeness to the model, but it’s not quite her. The tiniest of changes here or there and…
Three Shot Portrait Drawing
This is the quickest I have managed to bring a life-size portrait to this stage of resolution – 3 shots of just under 2 hours each. There are certainly areas that I could tweak and continue to refine, but the…
Figure Drawing
My latest figure drawing project from Sarum Studio. This was completed in 8 sessions of around 2 hours each. The actual drawing has a greater sense of luminosity and flow of light than is captured by the photograph. Still, you…
