Some more life drawing

The past few weeks of life drawing:

Black and white Conte Crayon on brown paper.

Black, sanguine and white Conte on grey paper.

Digital work, trying to loosen up more.

Faux fossils for sale

Some wood engraving prints that I've collaged onto quartz pebbles, I've made an edition of 20 of each type. Selling them on my etsy!

Sculpey models

Some of my recent models.

Enjoy!

Photography around Aberystwyth

Some of my recent photography.

Sunset, the sun was aligned perfectly with the statue.

Another sunset.

Close up of the statue.

Starlings!

Graffiti on a road sign.

Reflections in the water.

Hope you like them!

Using prints differently

Mini post here showing a couple of examples of my Chine-collé prints.

On this print I hand coloured my Linocut moths, then glued Gampi prints on top.

Close up of one of the moths.

On this print I did a similar thing, but instead it is Gampi over a woodcut that I did earlier. I also stuck scrap pieces of the Gampi around it to make the picture seem to have more movement.

I intentionally left the edges unstuck as I felt it created a nice effect.

Tiger Moths - A Reductive print

 A Reductive print uses only a single printing block, which is printed in stages, each time cutting more form the block. I decided to continue with the moth theme for it, this time choosing Tiger moths.

For my first layer I printed a "rainbow roll", that is, a blended multiple colour layer.

Mixing and rolling out colours.

The first print.

I printed out 7 copies, as I wouldn't be able to reprint them after starting to cut into the wood.

I realized that I should have cut out the white first, but I remedy that later by printing a layer of white!

Next I cut out a grassy background, remembering that what I cut out would stay the previous colour I printed.

The wood after cutting.

I printed a dark to light green rainbow on this layer.

A nice warm red I made by mixing Rubine red and Apricot inks.

Red moths!

The white that I didn't add earlier, actually is a nice cream colour, which is better I think.

The final layer is a mixed black made from ultramarine, apricot and rubine red.

The final print can be seen here.

Life drawing with colour pencils

  I decided to try to do life drawing with my pencils instead of Photoshop, at first I wasn't convinced but I am still trying.

My first pencil drawing, I felt that the colours were too bright, but I like that I've included more of the surrounding scene. It is unfinished as I ran out of time!

I really like this one, the softness of the colours seem to work well and the linework is nice too!

I feel this one is a little less successful, as the softness of the previous drawing isn't there.