It you are interested in future events, Dibujo London can be found at meetup.com/Dibujo-London-Free-theatrical-life-drawing.
I am currently having a short UK holiday to see my family. Last Sunday saw me in London for my first visit of the year. I arranged to meet artist Cathy Read and for us both to attend Dibujo London's theatrical life drawing in the Barbican Centre's conservatory. Cathy & I have been in contact for several years through social media. It was lovely to finally meet face-toface and to draw together. We started off with various warm-up drawing exercises followed by the story interspersed with poses (averaging about 10/15 mins each). I'm fairly pleased with the drawings I made, especially the direct watercolour sketches. Edit Thanks to local library facilities I have now added my drawings. Other photos here are by one of the organisers Karina Ellen. Thanks Karina. Please check out Cathy's paintings on her site cathyreadart.com, she's just started one inspired by our day out.
It you are interested in future events, Dibujo London can be found at meetup.com/Dibujo-London-Free-theatrical-life-drawing. One thing I like to do when I visit my parents is to go to the Monday life drawing class, which has been running for years. I first went in December 2009, I attend several times in 2010, but last attended a class in September 2011. Knowing I was going today, on Saturday I decided to draw with charcoal, not something I've done in a very long time, so bought some ready for today's class. I was slightly nervous having not taken a class in so long and because of my choice of medium. Consequently, I did the three 5 minute warm-up sketches using a Conté sketching pencil and then happily used the charcoal for the longer poses. Usually I like the precision of pen and pencil and was surprised how much I enjoyed experimenting with the roughness of charcoal. By the way: Despite the photos here I didn't use tinted paper, but white and so the contrasts are greater. A3 charcoal © Sue Pownall 2013 During the 3 hour class, I completed 12 drawings of which the two here are my favourite. I feel it was a very successful morning and I hope to go again before I return to Oman. What do you think? Please Please leave me a comment by clicking "comments" under the title. Thank you. Today, I received my copy of True Vines by Diana Strinati Baur and published by Gemelli Press. I love how my illustrations have been used. I originally posted the cover illustration for this novel on my old blog back in October, just before publication, but hadn't seen how the other illustrations had been used.
This novel by Diana is beautifully written and hard to put down. I recommend you get a copy now. True Vines is available in soft copy, kindle & nook from Amazon (uk, com, de...) and direct from http://gemellipress.com/portfolio/true-vines/ This is the sixth portrait of my Festival Face series, which was finished yesterday.
The title is an Arabic transliteration for sandstorm عاصفة رملية What do you think? Please leave me a comment by clicking "comments" under the title. Thank you. ******* Photograph used with permission of the photographer: Aziz (AbdulAziz) Al Jahdhami. This week's topic for Illustration Friday is tree and I thought I would share this old drawing from 2011. Limited edition giclée prints are available through my website shop and would make a great Christmas gift.
A selection of my drawings are on display and for sale now at
Bait Muzna Gallery, Muscat, Oman. If you are in the country, please visit the gallery. Thank you. Anyone who has followed my work for a while knows I don't like doing portraits. By portraits I mean the family portrait in pencil or watercolour. They are easy enough, but I find them a trial and unenjoyable. However, periodically I get a commission that I can't refuse. Before the summer I was commissioned to draw a man's wife for her birthday. I completed the drawing last month, but as her birthday is in October I waited to post it. Not only is this a pencil portrait, but it was drawn far larger than I would normally do, 50x70cm, eeek.
Please don't ask me to do one for you, but you can commission me to draw landscapes and buildings. Winter Wadi. Pen & ink. 360 x 240mm © Sue Pownall 2012 In April, I joined the tour company The Guide Oman to cross the Hajar mountains. I did a few sketches, which I shared here, and took a lot of photos. This drawing results from that trip. For those who don't know, winter here in Oman is really just less hot than summer with occassional rain. You can tell this is a winter picture after rain, as you can see grasses growing between the buildings. This original drawing is for sale. Please use the contact form for more details. |
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