Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Chalk portrait - Clive
With the remaining portrait session with Clive I did a chalk and charcoal portrait drawing. I used Anthracite Pastelmat paper, which I now highly recommend for chalk drawings as it holds the chalk well and allows textured effects - almost like very fine sandpaper.
Friday, 18 February 2011
Watercolour life portrait
In a break with tradition I tried adding watercolour to a pencil drawing during a pose at the Stamford Arts Centre. As you can see I haven't mastered the subtlety of watercolour yet! I went back over outlines using pen with Umbra ink.
Friday, 2 July 2010
Dancer drawings - Stamford
We had a beautiful model at the Stamford Art Centre this week, who is a professional ballet dancer. She held poses for 30 mins. Drawings below (click for larger image).
Graphite pencil on Ingres paper (c) Mike Todd 2010
White conte pencil on green Ingres paper (c) Mike Todd 2010
Carbon pencil on Ingres paper (c) Mike Todd 2010
Charcoal pencil on Ingres paper (c) Mike Todd 2010
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