Two completely different illustration styles for my aviator woman. Left one is oil charcoal pencil, and one on the right fine pen line. Aviator gear: courtesy Army Disposal store Wellington New Zealand.
Note: I acknowledge that this was created during the life drawing second year class, with tutor Chris Orchard from Adelaide Central School of Art.
Study sketch for painting from my life painting class. And the final product: a study in skin tones. lit directly from above.
Note: I acknowledge that this was created during the life painting second year class, with tutor Rod Gutteridge from Adelaide Central School of Art.
One might wonder how artists arrive at these junctures of abstract fissures. I can only say that it is a ‘process’, and a delightfully experimental one at that. For this exercise from 1st year drawing class at ACSA we were given an object which was wrapped in material. So we had to draw what we felt it looked like. Then 3 new objects were placed on the table for us to superimpose over what we had drawn from memory. The teacher then cut our drawing in half and gave one half away to another student whilst we inherited someone elses completely new work to join to our drawing. We did not choose whose drawing we could match with. BUT we did have to incorporate their style into ours and vice versa, to make it look homogenous once more.
I have titled it “I am all at sea”: 1.5metres square, charcoal on 350gsm paper.
Inspired by Bret Whitely for characterisation of form, and Amadeo Modigliani for colour and technique.
A very young Paul Hogan, painted by a very young Barbara, some 25 years ago. I found it and still like the impressionist style I had back then,….before I brought out the small brushes!
Drawing was imported into Brushes App, and coloured using the many varied brush techniques available on the App. All done with just my finger! Not sure if I could have achieved the figure drawing this way, but I like the experimental free flowing effect achieved through the Brushes App programme.
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