Autumn 2018 – Life Studies

I have been thinking about how and what to share from the life drawing I’ve been doing over the last few months. I could select a handful of my most successful drawings,  which would perhaps be more flattering to my ego and shelter my nascent artist a little more. But for reasons I can’t exactly fathom, I feel compelled to share my life drawing progress in all it’s stumbling glory.

So here goes, in date order, with  a little commentary along the way. Continue reading “Autumn 2018 – Life Studies”

New lines

In my first couple of weeks in the studio, I’ve tried to go back to first principles and just focus on drawing. I have been reacquainting myself with properly looking at things – observing, seeing space and shape and form.  To help with this, I’ve been following the exercises in Betty Edwards’ book, ‘Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain’,  a well known book in art education.

The leftside of our brain tends to be dominant, responsible for language, analysis, numbers and logic. Continue reading “New lines”