I didnt have a clue what I was doing when I started this except the notion of attempting a figurative piece. I had a photo of the top part of the figure and I liked the compact pose; the rest just sprung from there.
Playing with washes and colour, with a bit of drawing, and who knows where I have landed. Out of the proverbial and into the fire. Well, having said that, there are aspects I could take and use to better effect. You build up this thing intuitively and then you stand back and think that would be better there, and if only I had used a redder blue here, or lost that line there.
I do miss the life sessions I used to go to, as it was painting on the fly – no time to really think things through – just crash on, and this painting was similar in that respect. I do have sketchbooks full of figures that might be worth developing and applying some of these approaches to. We’ll see. I did have plans to do some life drawing at the start of this shutdown and apart from some sketches this is only the second figurative painting I have managed – I get sidetracked too easily.
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It’s a lovely experiment that could be the springboard to something else eventually! (Nothing wrong with being sidetracked – that could lead to interesting discoveries. 😉)
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Thanks Louise – hopefully I will develop this. If nothing else I need some new direction when the life drawing sessions resume over here.
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This is interesting – I love the colours too. I like your idea of using old figure drawings to create work , Graham . I really miss live Life Drawing sessions too .
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