Progress?
This week I decided that I finally had to try drawing figures with paint, instead of pencil.
I go to figure drawing approximately once per month and I feel more comfortable drawing figures with 9B graphite pencils than I did several years ago. But I watch some of the other artists using only brush and paint. How was I ever going to develop this skill?
It is hard to start something new when I am doing timed poses - in a group setting, so I decided to begin practicing at home. I used the large Niji waterbrush and my wood, articulated artist's model. And when I finished, my figure looked like a wooden statue! Not shown!!
The next day I switched to the small Niji waterbrush and sketched from photos in my Mark Edward Smith's book The Nude Figure: A Visual Reference for the Artist. Here are practice figures 2-4 - one done each of the next 3 days. Each one took approximately 10 minutes.
Comments
These are really quite nice, Shirley. I'm impressed!
xoxo
Posted by: Vicki Holdwick | July 18, 2013 8:45 PM
By golly, I think you've got it!!
Posted by: Sandra Torguson | July 18, 2013 10:42 PM
Very well done!!!
Posted by: Beth Berman | July 19, 2013 10:42 AM
I have been following your blog for a long time. You are very kind to share your process in painting, sketching, and bookbinding...just to mention the most frequent posts! My daughter and I are considering bookbinding projects, primarily to use some of the lovely papers I have collected through the years. I have finally admitted that I will not live long enough to paint on all that paper! I am interested in making journal size books, most with watercolor or multimedia paper. I want to keep it simple at this point, not too many styles. Can you recommend a book that has the basics, the "how to" of using things like the cradle for making the holes, basic stitching, making the signatures...the necessary things.? I would appreciate your opinion. Our budget is a bit tight and I think I will make my own book cradle. E mail would be OK if your prefer. Thanks so much.
Posted by: Frankye | July 19, 2013 12:52 PM
Very nice. I have the nude figure book too, so handy for those of us (meaning me) who have no live figure drawing classes nearby. I think these look really good.
Posted by: Caatje | July 20, 2013 1:57 PM
I like these very much!
Posted by: teri Flemal | July 21, 2013 4:00 PM
Frankye
I sent you a long email about my bookbinding experiences. Hope you received it.
If not, please send me another comment.
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