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Cafe Sketches – 23rd February 2006

February 23, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Fourth cafe sketching trip.

Although today’s drawings didn’t come out as well they did on the last trip(I don’t think,)there’s a couple of nice-ish ones and it feels good to be getting into a routine with these drawings now.

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First drawing from today, Madonna and child. I couldn’t see very much of the baby unfortunately. It’s alsounfortunate that this is the first drawing from that day because it was probably the nicest subject I’ve had so far.The first drawing is always a warm up, it takes me one or two to get my line alive and moving.

This drawing has the sketchy quality I’m used to for a first one. Also the proportions are out, largely becauseI didn’t plan the drawing first and started it too far over to the left. Trying to squeeze a drawing in when you’vestarted too far to one side is bad news, but I keep doing it for some reason.

I like this drawing for the subject, but it’s not one of the better ones I know.

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For some reason this one came out much bigger than usual. This one’s getting a bit stronger I think, I like theprofile line, its stronger and more definite than the last drawing. I’d have been better off leaving out his jokerubber hand though.

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This one is a bit stronger, and getting back to what they were on thelast trip. The line’s notreally flowing though, it looks a bit nervous and agitated. All the same, I quite like this drawing. The likeness isn’tgreat though, looking at this one now I can’t remember her very well.

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Last one of the day.

Some of the flow is coming back into the line on this one, but it’s a bit late coming. Across the shoulders andthe back is nice but I had some problems with the hat and the line of the head. Unfortunately this was a very quick onetoo, because she left a couple of minutes into the drawing.

I don’t think I was on the boil on this trip. But as usual I had a great time doing the drawings, waiting for subjects,and every drawing gets me a bit further along.

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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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