Spring sketches no 8

Sometimes with short poses we choose what to notate and what to leave out ...

... and sometimes we try to include everything including the kitchen sink when there really isn't time.. (two short poses, chalk on sugar paper, A3,  2009)


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Jane

Spring Sketches no 7

Pink lady .. a variety of apple.. and a minute with the model..

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Jane

Spring Sketches no 7

These two short poses (A3 charcoal pencil on sugar paper 2009) were probably made in the same series and are certainly with the same model - a very characterful one, whose likeness was one of the easiest to capture. Although likeness is not the object of the exercise, (which is to observe the whole figure), it is always nice when it happens.

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Jane

Spring sketches no 6

A blue one. One of my favourite supports for very short poses is the sugar paper you buy in colourful blocks from toy shops for children's drawings. It has a nice rough resistance and "hooks" chalk and pastels particularly well. However it is much too absorbent for ink. Here are a few chalky white lines on a blue background. The model has a rather masculine look to her shoulders and seems solid without having a womanly voluptuousness... but I cannot really remember the session .. by the time you have spent about 700 hours in the life room you can't remember everything,  though it is surprising how much is retained.

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Jane

Spring Sketches No 4

A couple of scribbly ones.. not so much taking a line for a walk but more like taking it on a pub crawl and getting it drunk.. but I was on the orange juice myself..  advice: don't drink and draw!

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Jane

Spring Sketches No 3. Ink/line/endomorph

These were all from the same series of short poses - draw, turn the page, draw, turn the page .. and above all ...... LOOK! My prof in Brussels said if you have 30 seconds look for 29 and then draw. They are never perfect so it is a good thing you can move swiftly on to the next one.. but don't suffocate the line.. the line must breathe .. that's a tough one..

Ha ha .. a cheeky felt nude is peeping out from the bottom corner.. a stowaway on the Good Ship Blogspot!

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Jane

Splashing about

My friend Sara doesn't know that her friends are putting a project together for her 50th birthday. I have been messing around with felt today making my contributions.. it is a lot of fun..

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Jane

Spring Sketches No 2. Ink/line/endomorph

A5 size sketchbook. Calligraphy pen and a minute with the model. A satisfyingly ample one to wrap the line around. The challenge is always to create three dimensionality without recourse to shading. Especially when she is leaning over and away from my point of view. Another one tomorrow.

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Jane

Spring Sketches Series No 1

I made this sketch a while ago ... (couple, ink and wash, A5 , 2005) My friend Sheri sent me a beautiful drawing recently and the subject reminded me so much of this one of my own.... then I thought of blogging some of these sketches while I am on the point of getting a studio and getting back down to work again. It will help get me in the mood after too long a break.

This is an "après Rodin" moment of love. If you want to see Sheri's drawing and her wide range of lovely works made with everything from paintbrush to knitting needle visit Everyday Louise by Sheri La...

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Jane