Day #11 Coffee and Grapes Monochrome Still Life

Oil on Cardboard (Burnt umber and white.)
Trying to use large brush strokes and be quite immediate with the paint.
Lots of mistakes and rushed parts, the setup was moved half way through and lighting on the canvas was too dark. Learnt a lot and had fun. It's nice to be painting again.

Day #10 Monochrome still life WIP

Half term!
Monochrome still life WIP

Day #9 Watering Can

Oil on cardboard.
Examples to show possible steps of painting to my class, kept shadows/details simpler than life for this. Construction, blocking in, blending and refining.

Day #8 Bird Skeleton

Indian ink of cartridge paper, from life.

Bird Skeleton from the science department of the school I am working at, I used this as a demonstration of negative space. The school quality inks I was using were terrible, so I have shopped it to just black and white.

Day #7 Headless Sketch

0.8 Roller ball on paper
Playing with the composition here, the headless man chooses his face...

Day #6 Madonna and Child

Oil on oil paper, burnt umber and white.
Quick oil study.

Day #5 Study of Jug in Monochrome

Oil on cardboard, burnt umber and white.
These days have been manic, from the time I wake up until the early hours I'm writing schemes of work, lesson plans, power points and resources. I do enjoy it, but there never seems to be enough time. I just remembered I am doing an oil tutorial tomorrow in a new school so I quickly did this as exemplar work to show the class, it will have to do... :) Good night.

Day #4 Bridgman Head Studies

2B
Although I have always been fascinated with drawing human anatomy, I am constantly reminded of how little I actually know. There is a saying that you are only an 'artist' when you can accurately draw the contours of the human body in every direction from the imagination. I though it a good idea to start doing anatomical studies from Bridgman and Loomis etc.
Peace

Day #3 Prophets and Sibyls

0.8 Roller ball and a thick felt pen.

This is what happens when  you're out of practise and it's late at night after doing a whole day of paper work... At least it is practice.
I need to work on showing more form with shading that follows contour lines while using a 'less is more' approach, and use relaxed, interesting and confident lines.

 Good night!

Day #2 Studies for head in profile

4B
Just a quick sketch before bed, I'm very busy at the moment with preparing to work in a new school. I am still going to make sure I do something everyday for the whole year, even if it isn't the highest quality. It was Interesting to see an overlay of the original, my eye placement was way too high!! this threw off my placement of the eyebrows and ear etc... I want to make sure I am learning something from the pieces I do, anatomy or otherwise.

Day #1 Michelangelo's david

#1 Michelangelo's David

Pencils: 2B, 4B, 6B and white chalk (pencil) on smooth brown paper. 

I need to work on getting proportion right, the mouth and chin are too small, I am happy with the outcome as it has been a while since I have picked up a pencil but this is  the start of a long journey. More thought should be put into the direction of mark making to show form, use less white on the highlights and show more middle ground in the drawing. Another more noticeable mistake up close was that I had used too much 4B on the dark of the right eye and the shine of the graphite was showing.