Figure drawing, life drawing class 6/ 5/ 09 Stewart

Stewart continues with the colour hatching style he recently developed. I asked him why he did not smudge the hatch lines of his pastel drawings with his fingers or a stump to blend the tones and colours and he said he liked the freshness and energy of the lines as first drawn. I like it too.

Figure drawing, life drawing class 29/ 4/ 09, Stewart

Stewart has a gift for drawing and for many weeks at the life drawing class he was blowing us all away with classical life drawing studies in willow charcoal on newsprint or any old paper I had to give away. He used shading techniques to model the form, excellent, traditional life drawing studies.
Then one day he asked to borrow someone's coloured chalk pastels to have a go in colour and the next week turned up with prepared paper with abstract watercolour designs on on which to draw experimental coloured pastel studies.
He is here using coloured paper and hot and cool colours and vigorous hatching techniques.