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A Good Day for Drawing

January 27, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Posted 27th January 2006 Three Hands Today (the 26th) was pretty productive. Four more drawings for thetwenty hands series, and the beginning ofa new self portrait drawing. It was one of those days when I felt fired up and just had to draw something, eventhough I had other stuff I was supposed to getting on

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Hand Drawing Number Ten

January 26, 2006 By: Paul1 Comment

Posted 26th January 2006 Twenty drawings of hands

Hand Drawing Number Seven

January 26, 2006 By: Paul1 Comment

Posted 26th January 2006 Twenty drawings of hands

Hand Drawing Number Nine

January 26, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Posted 26th January 2006 Twenty drawings of hands

Hand Drawing Number Eight

January 26, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Posted 26th January 2006 Twenty drawings of hands

Not every drawing can be a good one

January 23, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Where does the time go? I’m finding it harder to keep up with my drawing and keep my business together at the same time. I’m torn between wanting to do a good job for my clients and also wanting to throw myself completely into drawing and painting. I can’t do that while painting isn’t earning

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Hand Drawing Number Six

January 21, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Posted 21st January 2006 This one is a copy of a drawing by Raphael. The original is done in ink, so I used only a 6B for this one, hoping to get a similar depth to theline. I can’t say its a very close copy of the original, but I don’t mind. Copying an old

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Hand Drawing Number Four

January 21, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Posted 21st January 2006 This was actually the second I drew today, the first one ending up in small pieces in the bin. Ireally must stop doing that. In order to avoid all these hand drawings being from the same viewpoint, I drew this one in themirror, with my hand relaxed and my wrist resting

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Hand Drawing Number Five

January 21, 2006 By: Paulcomment

Posted 21st January 2006 This one was done in a bit of a rush. The light was fading fast, but the tones and shadows were nice and Ididn’t want to miss them. Drawings one to three were all done by electric light, four and five by natural light.I don’t know what it is about natural

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Eye Drawing Number Six

January 21, 2006 By: Paul1 Comment

Posted 26th February 2006 Back to Twenty drawings of eyes

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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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