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Back to Bargue

September 18, 2006 By: Paul3 Comments

It’s been four months since I did any Bargue drawing. That’s a bit frustrating, since I remainconvinced that the Bargue drawings are the most intensive eye training I do. Right from the first plate,I’ve seen the positive effect of them in my other drawings. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the

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Bargue Drawings – Plate Four

September 18, 2006 By: Paul2 Comments

Finally, after a four month break, I’m back on the Bargue drawings. I’ve got my reproduction problems sorted (at a cost) so now I can get back to some heavy-duty eye training. This drawing is the first one from plate four, a plate entirely consisting of ears. Why ears I wonder? Well they are an

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Paging Graydon Parrish

September 16, 2006 By: Paulcomment

This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while, and is an apology to Mr. GraydonParrish from a snot-nosed Brit who has been less than complimentary about his excellent book. A fewweeks ago, I got a very nice email from Graydon, who collaborated withGerald Ackerman on the publication of theBargue Drawing Course

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Clytie One – First Cast Drawing

July 31, 2006 By: Paul2 Comments

Clytie One – Sight Size Schematic So here it is, my first proper, sight-size cast drawing. Before you say anything, I know it isn’t finished. It’s not meant to be. This is the first of a series of ten cast drawings I’m going to do of Clytie, and I’m following the Bargue drawing approach used

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Clytie Two – Cast Drawing

July 31, 2006 By: Paul2 Comments

Clytie Two – Sight Size Schematic So here we are with the second one of this series of ten completed. I had lots of fun and games with this one. Firstly, I realised once I was a fair way through thedrawing that I wasn’t 90% to my drawing board. This produces distortion in the drawing

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A Series of Cast Drawings

July 31, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Having completed three of the four series of drawings of features (eyes, noses, hands and mouths,)I’ve just embarked on a new series. This series is going to be a bit tougher than the last lot, and willtake some time I think. A few months back I got hold of a reconstituted marble bust of Clytie

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How to Copy Bargue Drawings – An Update

May 22, 2006 By: Paul11 Comments

I’ve just finished plate three of the Bargue drawings, and I’m realising that there’s more to this than meets the eye – mainly because I steamed straight in without actually finding out how to copy the Bargue plates first. The difficulties I’ve had with them have come down largely to two things, bad technique and bad

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Bargue Drawings – Plate Three

May 22, 2006 By: Paul3 Comments

These are the first four drawings from plate 3, there are ten drawings on the plate. So far I’ve spent at least ten hours on this plate, the detailed version of the one with the beard alone took over four hours. It’s a shame I can’t get through them quicker, but this is the pace

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Bargue Drawings – Plate Two

April 4, 2006 By: Paul9 Comments

The original plate My copies Plate two, and the drawings are starting to grow in complexity already. I worked on these copies for longer, each one taking me between half an hour to an hour, so there’s well over ten hours work in this plate. For this plate, I had the originals blown up closer

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Charles Bargue Drawing Course (Cours De Dessin) Review

March 18, 2006 By: Paul15 Comments

Before I get into the review proper, I just want to say a few words about what transpired when one of the authors of the Charles Bargue Drawing Course found this review on the site here. He wasn’t pleased. If you don’t really want to hear about that and would rather get straight to the review, just

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Hi, I’m Paul

I'm a (mostly) self-taught artist. I paint realism in oils, mostly still life. I share my work, my evolving process and what knowledge I've gained on my own learning journey here, in the hope that it might help you on yours.
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