ONLINE ART COURSE - MODULE C - INK PENS Yesterday I started on the next module on the drawing course. I have done a lot of work with my fineliner black archival marker pens in the past but never for "realistic" drawing of the kind we are being taught on this course. Having…
COLORECTAL APPOINTMENT Warning - graphic medical details This blog post is primarily for my own benefit, to remind me of exactly what happened, what was said, and what to expect in the coming weeks. However, I have made it public because it just might help someone else in a similar position to myself.…
ONLINE ART COURSE - COMPLETION OF THE CHARCOAL MODULE At last! I've finished this module of the course. I have to say I have not enjoyed working with charcoal at all. It is very messy and imprecise, and smudges terribly, and often it looks a bit dirty. When I had completed the rhino…
MORE SKETCHBOOK DABBLING, PENS AND DIGRESSIONS, CATARACT NEWS AND SEEING PATTERN EVERYWHERE ...in fact, a bit of a waffle, this blog post! Read on if you're interested in some idle chat about the kind of things that fascinate me. Sketchbook My (almost) daily sketchbook is filling up with some eclectic stuff - experiments,…
NEW ART MATERIALS, USEFUL ART WEB LINKS, AND PAGES FROM MY SKETCHBOOK New pencils and pens We are shortly to embark on a new module in the online art course (ink pen and wash), and I've been collecting together some materials. While I already have quite a number of permanent black ink pens…
ONLINE ART COURSE - COMPLETING THE RHINO CHARCOAL DRAWING Today I completed the drawing in the third project of the charcoal module. It involved two stages - the shading with willow charcoal, and the final touches added with the charcoal pencil. Here it is with the shading. With further detail added with the…
ONLINE ART COURSE - BEGINNING THE RHINO CHARCOAL DRAWING Having done the warm up exercises, drawing the basic animal shapes, it was time to move on to the main drawing in this project, the third in the charcoal module. The reference photo is of two rhinos coming straight out of the picture towards…
ONLINE ART COURSE - NEW CHARCOAL PROJECT This is the final directed project of the charcoal module, and it is a picture of a rhino. Before starting on the project proper, we have a warm up session, and this time it consisted of three lessons, each one depicting a different animal. These are…
2023 - END OF YEAR REVIEW As usual, it has been a pretty eventful year, both personally and generally. See the end of this post for the most important aspects of changing world events and what they mean for us all. During the year, I have had various health issues to deal with…
ONLINE DRAWING COURSE - OPTIONAL EXTRA CHARCOAL LANDSCAPE, AND A NEW DRAWING TOOL Since this extra lesson was optional, I thought I would work it in graphite instead of charcoal. This was going OK (more or less) but eventually I realised that there were some large very dark areas and I wasn't getting…
