Once a month I do a life drawing session with the Sussex Road Art group in Worthing and I thought you might like to see what I produced yesterday; I’ve been trialling working with compressed charcoal and am really enjoying the depth of tone you can achieve with it.
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These poses were three quarters of an hour and an hour respectively, just the right time to put a bit of pressure on so you don’t have time to get too precious about it all!
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While not directly related to my garden designs, I do find life drawing is key to honing both drawing and ‘seeing’ skills which do feed into the ‘day job’!