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Tag Archives: One & Twenty
Drawing: A bit more nature
Simple plant shapes from a variety of visual resources, before adding some to my alcohol inked background. I have one more coloured background but it wasn’t usable as the background was too heavily coloured to see much imagery. So I … Continue reading
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Drawing: A bit of nature
Having used alcohol inks to colour some thick textural hand-made paper I decided to use them to make a criss-cross accordion book which I’m doing for my on-line flexible book structures course. But, as I’m keen to practice my drawing, … Continue reading
Design Play: Exercise 3 – Creating a design
The goal: Take line drawings and create a workable design to print. After my initial drawings of irises and grevillea (very loosely translated) a couple of weeks ago I spent a few minutes messing around with floral bouquets and was … Continue reading
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Drawing: More precise ‘Line’ figures
I’m currently reading about forming habits, decision-making and how to work faster, smarter and better (probably sounds super-boring to you, but fascinating to me). Some of the main points cover independence, exploration and the rewards of achievement. With my new … Continue reading
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Drawing: More ‘Shrink & Line’ Figures
Enjoying just messing around for a few minutes when I get time. Whilst these are pretty rough, along with some of my previous ones, some provide a reasonable start point for tracing and turning into prints.
Drawing: ‘Shrink & Line’ figures
Moving on to the next page in my book I found myself still on very small drawings but this time very sharp lines and angular shapes are used to define the characters. In 20 minutes I drew the following (and … Continue reading
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Drawing: ‘Shrink’ figures
Inspired by a couple of blogs I follow, both owners being amazing at drawing, a couple of weeks ago I bought a book on figure drawing. It’s unusual for me to follow a blog based around the talent of a … Continue reading
Wine & cheese linocut: Stage 2
I took masses of photos of red wine in a glass from various angles, with and without shadows. It was refilled once or twice as I needed lubrication from time to time. I chose the angles that appealed for my … Continue reading
Wine & cheese linocut: Stage 1
I’ve been drawing for days, 20-30 minutes each day, in preparation for my next print project. I’ve started with a wine glass and have discovered that I lean to the right – how uncannily similar they all are! Is that … Continue reading
Exploring charcoal
I’ve played with charcoal once or twice in the past, never really got to grips with it but interested all the same. So I joined a short 3 hour introductory class. Some fun exercises to get used to the different … Continue reading
Drawing – still life
This One and Twenty exercise got off to a slow start. After agonizingly drawing the main sweetcorn kernels I realised that time was about up on my allotted 20 minutes. Was I to leave my food in place until I … Continue reading
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And back to pencils ……..
Just a quick cube continuing to look at light sources. Followed by a composition of Okra.
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Feb drawing challenge: Day 10
A few quiet minutes sitting in the garden looking at my terraces. Not enough tonal variety, the wall isn’t high enough for the first garden bed, proportions are seriously out of whack. Poor drawing, need to do better next time. … Continue reading
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Feb drawing challenge: Day 9
A shell. I’ve done this before and got either a very flat unrecognizable piece or some very nice sylised drawings, like this one here. Today I’ve gone for something more realistic. Took about an hour to complete. Fun – hard … Continue reading
Feb drawing challenge: Day 8
A bit of doodling to get the hand moving, then a simple sphere with shadow. Learning how to match the light source and the shadow direction.
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Feb drawing challenge: Day 5, 6 & 7
Slightly behind and only a short amount of time each day, so I’ve got one project completed over 3 days. Continuing along the landscape theme I’ve added more detail than previous days. Day 5: Day 6: Day 7: It’s interesting … Continue reading
Feb drawing challenge: Day 3 & 4
Last weekend a quick stop in the newsagents found me leafing through the magazine shown here. I particularly liked some interesting tutorials and examples of work where landscapes have been roughly produced in a quick time frame without too much … Continue reading
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Feb drawing challenge: Day 1 & 2
I’ve had a busy start to the year with printing and travelling overseas so my normal routine didn’t really start until a few days ago. I’ve set myself a challenge for February: my weekly one-and-twenty drawing exercise is being changed … Continue reading
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One and Twenty: 31/12/2017 – Extended
Today I’ve had my drawing materials out. My One & Twenty focus is a simple exercise to get me drawing. I pick something, observe it for one minute and then spend twenty minutes drawing it. The idea is that I … Continue reading
Etching: rock pools – Final stage
Further to my last post on this project here, I decided to have a go at adding some plate tone to the rocks. Happy? Not even remotely. It was very hard to see where I was putting colour as the … Continue reading
Etching: Rock pools – Stage 3
Still loving this print! If you haven’t seen the progression of this project click here for stage 1 and here for stage 2 For my first 2 plate print I decided on sepia and yellow ochre mixes for the line-etched … Continue reading
Etching: Rock pools – Stage 2
Just loving this project! This week I’ve been concentrating on making a second plate to print with the etching I’ve already prepared. I’m aiming for the sections underwater. Transferring the design to plate 2: I soaked my BFK Reeves paper, … Continue reading
Etching: Rock pools
I’ve been desperately trying to get back to my ‘One & Twenty’ routine. OK, hardly a routine, but I’d like it to be. The idea is that I look at something for one minute (really trying to examine the image … Continue reading
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Hard ground etching: My first plate
Swans The aim with this plate is to combine it with my soft ground etched plant material from a few weeks ago, which will be printed as a second layer. I thought it might be interesting to be looking through … Continue reading
One & Twenty: getting started
My friend Judy and I have started a new weekly challenge. We gave it the name One & Twenty. The idea is to select an area/place, for example: the kitchen, back garden, view from the window, etc. then give ourselves … Continue reading
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