Month: December 2022
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One lump or two?
This is a portrait of Reddit user Fragrance_Ad7220 from a post on /r/CoffeeGoneWild. I loved the play of light and shadow, especially across the big, curved surface of her skin. This is another coffee cup painting, which I have decided will be an ongoing theme for me. I think the juxtaposition of sexuality with the…
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Study group – gesture 1
This month the Love Life Drawing study group is focusing on gesture drawing, a topic I have only danced around in the past. In the first exercise, Kenzo outlined some techniques for identifying the surface features that can describe how to find the rib cage and pelvis volumes. The clearest landmark on the chest is…
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Motion lines
I’ve started doing the Love Life Drawing first steps course. You might think I’d be past that point by now, but I really don’t think I am. There’s a unit on rib cage volumes that I think will be really helpful to my visualization skills. I’m planning to spend about a week per lesson in…
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Cane toad
The animal of the month subject over at Love Life Drawing is the toad. This is a cane toad, famous for being an invasive nuisance throughout Australia. I rushed through the painting of this, and frankly it shows. It’s not great. It does a reasonable job representing the shapes at least. I’ve got another thing…
