A selection of life drawings/ figurative drawings from the past few months in pastel, graphite and conte crayon.
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Life drawing- Ellie on mixed media backgrounds
In this life drawing session I enjoyed experimenting with drawing on pre prepared gel plate printed backgrounds with conte crayon. I incorporated bird imagery into the gel plate prints to link to some of my personal projects this year that feature birds and vessels. Ellie- conte crayon on gel plate print 2x5 minute poses Ten …
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Gestural life drawings in compressed charcoal
In this life drawing session I experimented with a looser, more gestural style of drawing using compressed charcoal. I enjoyed letting go of perfectionism and creating more messy, expressive work. This style of drawing really lends itself to quick 1-5 minute poses- it forced me to focus on the movement of the figure to create …
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Life drawings: sanguine drawings of Natasha
Natasha 20mins 4x 5 minutes poses 15 minutes 20 minutes 10 minute pose For this life drawing session I concentrated on drawing with a sanguine conte crayon. Sanguine has been used throughout history to draw the human body. Artists such as Leonardo DaVinci, Michelangelo and Raphael used it to create detailed anatomical drawings. Rembrandt also …
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Publisher & designer of UPPERCASE, Janine Vangool’s sketchbook revival class
In this Sketchbook Revival session Janine Vangool “explores the creative possibilities of turning your sketchbook into a “text” book, while spending time with your thoughts to create personal messages (and more) using tactile, pre-digital lettering methods.” During this session we watch Janine utilise a myriad of printing tools and techniques to add text and fonts …
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Sketchbook revival
This April I took part in the Sketchbook revival challenge. This is an 11 day sketchbook challenge organised by Karen Abend. The sketchbook revival is in its 9th year and consists of 11 days of free courses provided by lots of talented artists on various subjects, materials and techniques to get you using your sketchbook …
Some recent life drawings
A collection of recent life drawings in pastel and conte crayon by Rachel Crawshaw
Life drawings
A collection of life drawings of model Sophie in conte crayon and charcoal on sugar paper. Gestural figurative drawings and portraits by artist Rachel Crawshaw from @mushroommoondesigns
The final MMD Page a day 31.01.2022
We made it! A page a day for the whole of January 2022! Here is my final entry which is quite foreboding! I love the juxtaposition between the jolly colour scheme and the chilling words and images. I went off the page with this one, adding a flap made up of different paper scraps and …
MMD Page a day 30.01.2022
In today's entry I went for an owl theme! I had these images of headless uniformed people so I decided to add this owl head to make a fun Owl general. I used the spotty background just to add more fun and frivolity to the image, and I couldn't resist the crazy eyed owl sticker …
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