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P58 – Still Life In Tone

Posted on March 20, 2014 by notes to the milkman

While I was at Manchester Museum, I ‘grabbed the chance’ to do an exercise I had missed out earlier. … take a look at the darkest areas only. Use coloured pencils or pastels and sketch them in roughly. Then, using … Continue reading →

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P67 – Drawing Animals: Grabbing The Chance (Part 2)

Posted on March 20, 2014 by notes to the milkman

I checked the course information about the animal drawings and could not find anything that said they had to be alive so I had a day out at Manchester Museum. Stuffed Bengal tiger in 6B pencil Dall’s Sheep in ink … Continue reading →

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P67 – Drawing Animals: Grabbing The Chance (Part 1)

Posted on March 20, 2014 by notes to the milkman

“Take opportunities as they arise.” I managed to do some animal sketches on three occasions. Firstly, we had to ‘dog sit’ Henry, my son’s Cavalier King Charles spaniel, when his bitch was on heat. He was fairly still when asleep … Continue reading →

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P66 Research – Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Durer

Posted on March 13, 2014 by notes to the milkman

Note: This blog post is an entirely Bridgeman-Education-Image-Free Zone! Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) were similar in that they both lived during the Renaissance and both drew animals. However the drawings they produced were very largely due to the … Continue reading →

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P64 Plants and flowers in coloured pencil

Posted on March 2, 2014 by notes to the milkman

“Coloured pencils can be very carefully controlled and are excellent for drawing detail. Making a drawing of plants and flowers will help you to explore the ways that coloured pencils can translate detail… Your aim should be to make the … Continue reading →

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P61 Drawing using oil pastel

Posted on March 2, 2014 by notes to the milkman

Runner beans, broad beans and fruit Check and log: What have you learned from drawing the details of fruit and vegetables? Perseverance! This section will end soon! Please! What did you find most challenging about this part of the course? … Continue reading →

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P63 Drawing Plants and Flowers – Negative Space in a Plant

Posted on March 2, 2014 by notes to the milkman

“Carefully look at your plant. Consider all the space around it and between its stalk and leaves and concentrate only on these elements. Don’t draw the plant: draw the spaces within and around… To make the image ‘readable’ by a … Continue reading →

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P60 Using markers or dip pens

Posted on March 2, 2014 by notes to the milkman

“Work out at least three alternative compositions with your pieces of fruit and combination of colours in your sketchbook. Use a collection of markers with different sized fibre tips from fine points to wedge shapes.”

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P59 Drawing fruit and veg in colour

Posted on March 2, 2014 by notes to the milkman

“Select some pieces of fruit and vegetable. Draw each of the individual pieces in your sketchbook, in whatever medium you choose, paying attention to the shapes or planes that make up the outline. Write your thoughts and ideas next to … Continue reading →

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100 (or 20 of them, at least) for 2013

Posted on January 1, 2013 by notes to the milkman

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Today’s Seven in the Sunday Telegraph had “2013 – The 100 Things You Should Know”, a nine-page preview of the arts in 2013. It included theatre, TV, music, dance and so on, but…

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