life drawing at candid arts islington

in london this week so dropped into one of the evening sessions to draw some dynamic poses – short 2-minute and some 10 minute. started with graphite pencil

graphite pencil 2-minute life drawing

graphite pencil 2-minute life drawing

ink drawings at candid arts islington

for the later life poses I changed to rotring artpen and a brush using sepia calligraphy ink

pen and sepia ink on khadi cotton rag paper

pen and sepia ink. 10-minute life drawing

pen and sepia ink. 10-minute life drawing

another sepia ink life-drawing

the model was seated for a portrait session but I decided to complete the full figure in the 20-minutes allotted

pen, brush & sepia ink on fabriano 240 gsm paper

more drawings made in worcester uk

soluble ink pencil

wolff's carbon pencil and watercolour

sepia ink

a couple of ink drawings from life – both about 20 minutes

pen, brush-pan & ink on paper

pen, brush-pen & ink on paper

ink with collage

an ink life drawing with drapes added as a paper collage

sketchbook pages

a couple of rapid a4 sketches which were warm-ups for today’s earlier postings:

wolff's carbon pencil and watercolour

wolff's carbon pencil and watercolour

perhaps this is worth posting again¡

previously a thumbnail in this blog [29-07-09] but perhaps worth posting as a larger image:

pen, brush pen & black ink

monochrome life

quick sketch – attempting an angular, vorticist style inspired by the model’s haircut:

wolff's carbon pencil and water

watercolour life

at one of the drop-in life sessions I again tried watercolour using a limited colour range to achieve flesh tones – mixing just three winsor & newton artists’ colours:

wolff's carbon pencil and watercolour