Saturday, 22 November 2014

Life Drawing in pastels


My favourite class bar none is Tuesday morning with Harriet Brittaine at South Hill Park.
It is a Life Drawing class tutored by a talented artist and cheery, organised teacher, who gives subtle but such helpful advice to us all.


This model is very, very slender.


I am using my pastels, which have remained untouched for years because I have little idea how to use them plus the fact that they are extremely messy and so I will not use them indoors at home. 

I am struggling along with them in my own untidy fashion. Some pastels are soft and dense and they almost melt onto the paper; others are square in cross section and are hard and make precise marks so there are a lot of effects to achieve.

I am loving it.



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