People and Pomegranates

Lots to post today: Nine cafe sketches, some more Bargue drawings and a pomegranate for Patty. I have a feeling that my work has changed a bit over the last week or two. Hopefully for the better. The last batch of cafe sketches seem more like little portraits to me, and the pomegranate appears to have more pomegranate-ness about it than the last two I painted.

More Cafe Sketches

Cafe sketch numnber 50
This picture is from the second of two trips to the Cafe Nero. My my, I am getting slow with these updates. The first visit was on the 26th of March, over a week ago now. That one didn't go so well. I ended up sitting at the back of the room again which doesn't give me such a good view, and I appear to have been off the boil since I came home with only three drawings, and none of them were up to much.

The second trip went much better. I got a few more drawings out of it and I had a good time. The drawings from this trip got closer to the people I was drawing, and although they were more 'sketchy' than they've been lately, there's something about them I like.

More Bargue Drawings

Bargue plate 2
I've finished the first Bargue plate of eyes now, and have also done the second one, of noses and mouths. I'm working more slowly on these copies now, and I think they're getting better. I'm pretty sure they're having a positive effect on both my drawings and my paintings. Highly recommended. For the second plate, I got the plate blown up much closer to the size of the originals. I plan to do them all this way now, it was definitely different working actual size. It was easier apart from anything else.

A Pomegranate for Patty

Patty's Pomegranate
This pomegranate is the fifth painting of the ten single objects series. I think it came out quite nicely, despite struggling with the changing light all day.

Out of sixteen paintings I've done so far, four of them have been of pomegranates, I seem to be developing an unhealthy pomegranate obsession. Actually, maybe it's a healthy obsession, since pomegranates are very good for you and I often eat what I paint when I've finished. I'll have to watch that when I start painting portraits though, that wouldn't go down too well. I'd probably get indigestion or something, and might not get paid.

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