Types of rubbers and erasers for drawing Using erasers for rubbing out mistakes comes last on my list of top 10 uses for rubbers and erasers! Read further to find out my top 10 tips. Then you’ll know exactly how you should be using them when drawing. If you’re new to drawing or just enrolled […]
Flow and Movement Session 1 (8 October 2014) The theme for my double session of life drawing class at Salford Art Group was Flow and Movement. I described to the art class a ‘toolkit of exercises’ that when returned to over time will help students improve their sense of movement and dynamics in their drawings. […]
Why keep a Sketchbook? This is a very good question. At the moment I keep 3 different sketchbooks – each for a different reason. Way back at art school I was always told to keep a sketchbook and you will find virtually all art teachers will tell you the same. So there must be a […]
Be warned – drawing, particularly life drawing, can catch you by surprise and never let you go. It can turn your life upside down and fill every spare moment if you let it. That’s brilliant – and the rewards are great because the challenge is so great! I caught the bug at art school and […]
Week 2: This session was all about the mainstay of good observational life drawing – how to measure. Daunting for some, hated by others and loved by the few. Whichever way you look at it it’s the only way you can check to see if proportions and angles are correct. The eyes do funny things […]
Some artists really do have an ingenious take on working with paper and it was inspiring to see the ideas they had come up with. Well worth a visit if you haven’t done so already, but you only have a week left – so hurry on down to the city centre. The artworks that stood […]
We attended this fab exhibition at Tate Liverpool this weekend. Some really interesting drawings, picked up on a couple of new techniques I want to experiment with, discovered some new artists and revisited old favourites, saw some stunning animations and went away with a head full of ideas and inspiration. Sorry for no pictures but […]
