Showing posts with label Pastels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pastels. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Studio Stuff- Pastels 2

These are some of my in-class studio works.
I took a class with the great Bill Maughan and the class changed the way I draw and paint.

Five-eight hours, soft pastels on coloured paper.
These were done using a photo-reference.




Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Studio Stuff- Pastels ( drawings and sketches)

These are some of my in-class studio works.
I took a class with the great Bill Maughan and started to think in terms of colour and form instead of line...and it made my head hurt. This class changed the way I started to draw and paint.

Three-five hours, soft pastels on coloured paper.





This was an ok drawing, but the model absolutely loved it, so much so, she took several pictures of it. Kinda got a kick out of it.




Studio Stuff- nudes, sketches

These are some of my in-class studio works.
I took a class with the great Bill Maughan and started to think in terms of colour and form instead of line...and it made my head hurt. This class changed the way I started to draw and paint.

Three-five hours, Conte-crayon pencil on paper.
It was for the first day of my 'pastel-painting' class, I did not bring any, so I used what I had and I loved it.


This was my first attempt at pastels.
Three-five hours, soft pastels on coloured paper.

One is supposed to use pastels almost like painting with oils, no hard lines and you develop forms with colours...silly me, I started putting lines like I was drawing a comic page, end results for all to see.
I have improved a bit....but these are my earlier attempts.
 This was the same fantastic model I had for clothed figure, again drawing her was like drawing a cat trying to stretch, beautiful and very fluid poses.



In these drawings, we had to change the lower portion of the model into that of a fish-mermaid-thingee. I loved this funky way of working.