Monthly Archives: March 2013

Cat woman superteam

Well I enjoyed making the cat woman drawing last night I though I would make a second – again in part to work on the proportion issue. So this time I decided to make the more more statuesque Cat Woman … Continue reading

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Cat woman sketch

Over the past few weeks I’ve been having one or two problems getting the proportions of a human body correct when drawing free hand. I’ve worked out a new technique and I thought I’d try it out a reasonably complicated … Continue reading

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More looking at Diego Velazquez

I’ve now decided that Velazquez has risen up my list of greatest painters. I know this is a ridiculous thing to do but in truth we all do it. We can’t help it, it’s what makes us humans – making … Continue reading

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After Velazquez – Day 2

Day 2 of this little painting. I had meant to work on this some more last night but I left my iPad at a friends so wasn’t able to do so. In a funny way this helped because I was … Continue reading

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Problems with Email

Yet another test of the email system! I have posted to both my Blogger account and WordPress account. The Blogger account seems fine but the WordPress doesn’t seem to have worked so this is a post just to WordPress to … Continue reading

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After Velazquez

Had half an hour to kill so I thought I would start on a painting with very restricted colours and hues….this is the result from the Velazquez painting of Woman frying eggs c 1618 Simon Marchini http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk

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Nude Woman No 2 – I’ve taken it as far as I can

There reaches a point in any painting when you can’t take it any further. I think I’ve reached that point with Nude Woman No 2. I’ve included a progress image just to show how the painting evolved over the past … Continue reading

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