Some Stuff From The Archives ***major 56K killer***

Not much to say about these.

First lot.
Various Life Class workshops
Ranges from 2 minute sketches to 5 minutes, to maybe half an hour. Can't really remember but you'll see what ones are what anyway.
All are A1 apart from the last two.
Medium = pencil, charcoal, chalk, bread

http://x27.xanga.com/6b4d850a58330149492816/w111240110.jpg

http://x3a.xanga.com/5b1d810659730149492842/w111240130.jpg

http://x41.xanga.com/423c010746632149492864/w111240149.jpg

http://x8c.xanga.com/2e3d950759c31149492900/w111240181.jpg

http://xef.xanga.com/b8ad871260130149492931/w111240207.jpg

http://x21.xanga.com/32dc011360232149492957/w111240230.jpg

http://xbc.xanga.com/badc071361c32149492993/w111240254.jpg

http://x45.xanga.com/173d940b62431149493023/w111240282.jpg

http://xcc.xanga.com/8b4d820039131149493053/w111240307.jpg

http://x09.xanga.com/216c171262d33149493078/w111240330.jpg

http://xa1.xanga.com/6a7c1300c0730149493127/w111240373.jpg

http://xe6.xanga.com/769c141164633149493156/w111240393.jpg

http://x43.xanga.com/e99c140a64333149493196/w111240430.jpg

http://xb8.xanga.com/453c110751233149493226/w111240457.jpg

http://xc5.xanga.com/2a2c110658733149492782/w111240080.jpg

Flesh Studies.
All on A1
Acrylic + lots of pigmentless base medium for mixing washes.

http://xec.xanga.com/320c050657532149492681/w111239991.jpg

http://x63.xanga.com/7e0c100034333149492709/w111240011.jpg

http://x42.xanga.com/a90c060774d32149492738/w111240038.jpg

http://xd6.xanga.com/a34c0000d4d32149492756/w111240056.jpg

http://xa5.xanga.com/671c001379232149492537/w111239620.jpg


Two Random arrangements because they've got nice shiney surfaces in them
A1
Acrylic + base medium + spit.
Fot those that know what they are, these were done during my GCSE years so that's when I was 15-16 and whoa... 12 years ago...

http://xdf.xanga.com/b1dc150033533149492621/w111239939.jpg

http://x82.xanga.com/76ac231155235149492568/w111239891.jpg

and some monkey heads cos monkeys are cool
http://xaa.xanga.com/5d6c0a0a56132149492645/w111239961.jpg
ok, this is a chimp but still....


Portraits

All done on bits of board that I could find All bigger than A4, none bigger than 16" x 20"
Acrylic + medium
Time ranges from a day, to a week, to 25 minutes depending on how lucky I am.

http://xc6.xanga.com/714d8a0670d30149493660/w111240832.jpg

http://x58.xanga.com/dfbc370707535149493619/w111240797.jpg

http://x9b.xanga.com/203c020745d33149493536/w111240726.jpg

http://xba.xanga.com/2a8d950b68231149493511/w111240704.jpg

http://x65.xanga.com/4d0c0b1268132149493486/w111240682.jpg

http://x2b.xanga.com/61ed831367631149493430/w111240637.jpg

http://x5a.xanga.com/81bc011267532149493384/w111240594.jpg

http://x5b.xanga.com/2dd8255b35d08149493302/w111240521.jpg

http://xf9.xanga.com/625d850b65030149493270/w111240495.jpg

and an unfinished one...
http://xca.xanga.com/f2fd830566231149493350/w111240563.jpg

one word.....
WOW!

wow nice art

sketching is not really my thing because it is too rough but the paintings look great :iceslolan

JK

Yeah, I don't do rough sketching/anatomy either, but I can appreciate those who have that talent and desire.

Thanks for posting your work DM. The portraits are really nice. People tell me I should get into doing portraits, but car commissions keep me busy and happy, so I never pursued it. Maybe sometime when my boys are grown and I have nothing else to do...

Have you done any auto related art?

B

those sketches were done as part of a workshop.
the idea was to teach people to "see" better and more specifically, to see correct shapes, tones and proportions; hence the time restrictions and why some are "unfinished".

As for auto related.
Short, no excuses given answer = No.

Longer answer:
When I was a kid, around 12-16, all I drew was cars and planes but they all got "lost" (read as: thrown away by dear mother) when I moved house.
Since my degree, I've never really had the time to just sity down and draw and paint like I did when I was studying. When I was studying (from way back at GCSE, through A-Level through Degree) the things I was drawing and painting weren't cars.
At GCSE I was all about story telling in a painting.
At A-level was when I discovered that I had a knack for painting heads (which was when most of those above were done)
At degree, I was way too busy with all that architecture lark and the only painting I did were some more portraits for friends.

It's only recently when I've settled into work a bit that I've been able to free up some time to do stuff.
I've dusted off my bag of paints and have already prepped a couple of boards though, so as they say;
Watch this space.

good work
we did the same kind of stuff at the uni until last year