Fourth in the series – a self portrait a day until Christmas. Another day another self portrait. This one was done much earlier in the day, in fact I just finished it a couple of hours ago.All The others were donearound two in the morning when I guess I was pretty tired. It also means
Self Portrait Drawing, 7th December 2005
Third in the series – a self portrait a day until Christmas. I made a new, bigger grid last night, A3 size, before I did this one, which is why there’s more of the figure in it. On the portrait on 6th December,I couldn’t get the neck in because the frame of the grid was
Self Portrait Drawing, 6th December 2005
Second in the series – a self portrait a day until Christmas. Drawn with a very similar approach to the last one, except I sat down for this one,much more relaxing. Thegrid was taped to the mirror as with the last one.I pretty much ignored real tonal shapes in favour getting the elements all in
Self Portrait Drawing, 5th December 2005
New project – a self portrait a day until Christmas. Getting back into drawing again has reminded me how important drawing is, and how bad mine currently is.We’re running up to Christmas now, and I have a lot of client work to do and will probably be working every day,so not so much chance to
Two Pomegranates
4th December 2005 It’s been over a week since I’ve had a new painting post, it feels good to be putting this one up today. I’m especially happy because I think this represents a small step forward. Over the last few days I’ve been doing a lot more drawing. Initial experiments with ‘right brain’ perception seem
Drawing Grids
A handy little aid to planning out a drawing These handy little tools are an extension of the view finder framer I use to decide on a composition.It’s just thread wrapped round a card frame, takes half an hour to make one. You holdit out in front of you between you and the subject, parallel
Right Brain Drawing
A bit of fun with W. B. Yeats Look at this picture. What do you see? Abstract shapes or can you see arepresentation of something you know from the real world? I know what it represents,so it’s impossible now for me to see it fresh. I’m guessing you’ve probably twigged it too. If you have
Old Master Drawings Copied Upside Down
30th November 2005 Click here for an enlargement Right brain upside down old masters. Clockwise from top left on first drawing:Fragonard, Rubens, Rembrandt, John Singer-Sargent, Raphael Sanzio. These were all copied upside down, trying to develop right-brain,spatial perception. The ones which look right way up are actuallyupside-down. back to Old Master Copies
Old Master Drawings Upside Down
30th November 2005 back to Old Master Copies
Left Brain – Right Brain
What I mean by ‘learning to see’ Today I bought a book called ‘Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain’. Drawing has been occupying mythoughts more the last few days while I haven’t been painting. I stopped in the bookshop and saw this book,and was reminded of something I came across yesterday about right