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Monday, May 4, 2009

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.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

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



Christine likes a strong and sure contour line and accents of deep black in, usually, partial views of the model and some of her work in the class is out there, bold and abstract.
This one is a more formal study of shadows. I love the toes and shoulder shadows and the arbitrary vertical line that crops the view of the model