Sunday, 29 October 2017

The Ancient Submariner.


This is Michael. 
He is about 80 years old, likes a pint at lunchtime and speaks with a strong West Country accent. He loves the sociability of the art group and chats away.
 He takes the job very seriously.

Compared to other portraits in the group, mine was sombre in colour. I don't know if that is a reflection of my character or just that I'm too mean and lazy to get fresh colours out when I have overmixed them. 



Friday, 13 October 2017

Life Class



I tried to channel Toulouse Lautrec here :)
His pastel paintings of female nudes usually figure yellow-tinged skin, never pink tones.
The complementary colour is violet and I used that for hair, stockings and most darks.



This was a warm-up sketch.
The stripy stockings were supposed to be a big feature but I had to almost ignore them 
or they became the focal point of the drawing.