I can hear my husband making pancakes for breakfast downstairs. Thump goes the maple syrup on the kitchen table. Me? I’m lying in bed drawing on my iPhone, Lemon the cat gently snoring beside me. I’m hungry… Here’s the drawing: a lady in a maternity dress.
Maternity Dress
This turned out like a face in a comic book – superhero style. With nice zingy neon colours. Sketched in charcoal, photographed, and coloured on my iPhone.
heroic neon
I’ve done quite a bit of painting and drawing since my last post- but somehow couldn’t find the right thing to add. Which is interesting, as there was once a time when I posted every piece of work, complete or not. Things change.
Atelier classes have started up again – slowly, I’m making progress in learning how to draw and paint classical chiaroscuro. Here’s the latest, funked up on computer because I can’t bear to post an exercise like every other exercise that’s been made down the centuries.
Sparkle
A few further changes, and voila! a bone white, bleached out beach scene.
bleached bone and driftwood - beach scene
It’s so great to return to my local Life Drawing Club after the holidays. [It only costs £10, the models are good and nobody tells you what to do - my idea of great]. It was full to capacity, with lots of talented people and it’s a pleasure to catch up with them in the half-time coffee break. This is my charcoal sketch.
January Nude in Charcoal by JC Hall
