mixed media fiddle

couldn't work with my model today-

(my fault- been unwell for a while) so had

a fiddle with mixed media which I used to love

am fairly pleased with it - pen, ink, watercolour

and acrylic on (I think) Canson pastelpaper

mounted onto mountboard

pastel study - Basil

have produced some poor work since

the last post - perhaps this study

of new girl Basil is a start of a better period-

Kremer, Conte and Unison on

brown Clairefontaine Pastelmat

sunday nude

My regular sunday girl could not turn up today

but a friend of hers (with the improbable name of Basil),
and who obviously had not been at the same
party last night, filled the space - beautifully!
Charcoal on prepared paper - and a new hot
tip!.... the drawing yesterday left one of my
fingertips bleeding - so I put a fabric plaster
on it today and it created a lovely extra tone
in the drawing when I pushed
the charcoal around with it!
but I suspect it has to be a fabric plaster

scanned charcoal

this is the drawing scanned in eight

sections and stitched.......

close to being finished!

more charcoal stages

this is the charcoal taken a bit further

and later I will try to scan it so that

a better impression is given.....

the next charcoal I will use more layers

of gesso so I can do a bit more scraping

back with a blade... how models hate that noise!

charcoal in progress

this charcoal drawing is about a third done

and I thought I would take (grotty) photos

of it as it progressed -

partly so I could see how I draw - and

it may seem daft but there are times when

I have no idea how I got from A to Z

when I draw...

as for grotty the photos are snapped in

my studio without extra light.... the paper

is white! well it is paper with a gesso

surface which allows me to keep the

charcoal fluid.... the charcoal lifts of the

surface easily so every now and then

if I want to darken and area it must be

fixed - I use Lascaux Fixative....

willow charcoal , Conte charcoal pencils and

a big hand for the putty rubber!!
and a bigger one for the wonderful Caitlin