Next Week

The Art GCSE is looming, next week the 10 hour exam will take place. Things are coming together for the students now!

Life Drawing Lesson 5

For our 5th drawing lesson we worked in collage to create a fractured interpretation of the seated nude. The class had to work quickly to build up a sense of the figure in front of them.The results were varied and interesting, take a look.

Life drawing lesson 4

We started off the lesson with a series of quick poses, using blind technique, continuous line, contour and wrong hand drawing. This got the students in the right frame of mind for a couple of longer studies in charcoal. The work is really progressing, see for yourself below.

Life Drawing lesson 3

This lesson we began by carrying out a brief painting in acrylic paint on cardboard as a warm up exercise. We focused on reducing the palette (burnt sienna, ochre, white and black) to translate the model’s warm skin tone effectively. The students worked on wooden board, this material – which offered little resistance to the paintbrushes and medium, allowed them to work easily and quickly during the hour pose.

The Artists we took inspiration from in particular this lesson were:

 Kaye Donachie

Whose hazy saturated painting’s really deal with the soft quality of skin and differing light sources and shadows being dispersed throughout the work.

Anthony Cudahy

Cudahy’s painting’s use a patchy tonal ‘swatch’ like application of paint to build up form and heighten light and dark to a stark contrast.

Here are some outcomes.