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…
ONLINE DRAWING COURSE - FINAL LANDSCAPE IN CHARCOAL To my relief, today I completed the final landscape of three in the Charcoal module. There is a further bonus landscape to draw if we wish, but this is optional; having decided that charcoal really isn't my medium of choice, I shan't be tackling that…
EMBROIDERY ON MY SECOND VICTORIAN APRON Second post of the day Back in November I began work on my second Victorian-style linen apron, designing the embroidery and transferring it onto the fabric pieces for the bib and pockets. You can see this here. I began the embroidery but have not done very much…
ONLINE ART COURSE - SECOND CHARCOAL LANDSCAPE, AND A BIT MORE HOMESPUN PHILOSOPHY The second landscape was more interesting than the first one, and I think I made a better fist of it! I'm still not entirely happy, and have come to the conclusion that charcoal is definitely not the medium for me.…
ONLINE ART COURSE - MODULE B - CHARCOAL - PROJECT 6 - LANDSCAPE SKETCHES Today I completed the first landscape study on this project. I have to say that I am not embracing charcoal. It is messy, and looks dirty. It's all good experience, and I shall complete the module, but I very…
ONLINE ART COURSE - MODULE B - CHARCOAL - COMPLETING THE SUNFLOWER DRAWING Today I completed the sunflower drawing in charcoal. I had left it having done the background, and there were three remaining lessons to complete the picture - the flower head, the leaves and stems, and the final pencil work to…
