Another Day

I havn't updated this blog for quite some time! I'm not sure if anyone reads it but anyway... Here is a painting of bottles in it's early stages that I recently started. I concentrated on the transparent bottle with the red pencil in to start with, mainly because I was unsure about how to paint it. I find coloured glass much easier and more satisfying to paint. People always ask "how do you paint glass?", I was pondering this as I painted and decided  that painting glass is easy; it's painting the other side of the glass that's tricky.

I had another attempt at Anne's face last session.

Naked Man Holding a Cup. A quick silverpoint drawing I did at my last life drawing session. This was done with a biggish piece of stirliing silver onto a light yellow toned gouache paper. I've proven to myself that silverpoint doesn't have to be all painstaking fine lines and cross hatching. I really liked the natural pose. This was just as he was standing naturally during our coffee break. I prefer these poses to the more contrived poses that models are often encouraged to assume in life drawing classes.

A detail of Anne's face after another session.

I've been doing more drawing recently, trying out different mediums, and I thought I would try out the ancient technique of silver point. Siver point is, as the name suggests, simply drawing with a sharpened piece of silver onto paper that has been prepared with a coating of gouache to impart a tooth. For my first atempt I sketched Dale sat knitting whilst watching TV. A rare occasion that finds her sat still!

I have been working on Anne's fluoresent orange plastic crocs and struggling to relate how I see everything to the chair I painted. Perhaps Pearlstein knows something afterall..  I have had to move the chair up in relation to the figure slightly. It's still a constant juggling act at this stage for me, I find. I've begun Anne's face and she is looking rather fierce. I feel the face needs to be smaller perhaps.