Sculpture update

Still working on the sculpture from last week. Slow progress.

Hands

Concentrating on hands in tonight's session. First some 5 minute exercises.

Then two longer poses.The first I thought was 20 minutes but was actually 30 minutes. This was good as I had time to work on the face/head as well and think about design (particularly with the shadows on the neck).

Last one not quite as successful, about 40 minutes.

Sculpture (work in progress)

Slow progress on this one. From life in wax.

Regency - work in progress.

Practice with a high key, cool palette. I was trying to use transparent acrylic though I've already got through a lot of titanium white with corrections and going too dark too soon. Reference is from NastiaOsipovaStock on deviantart.com

Christmas Pastels

No life drawing this week so some practice with colour. Hard pastel on velour. 18cm x 24cm

Just charcoal

First 3 three minute sketches

Long pose about one hour 30 minutes.

Experiments and deja vu

Experimented with wax pastels (water soluble) for the quick poses. I should have tried this before the session as the paper didn't do what I expected. Two 10 minutes on 15"x22" cartridge.

Long pose was almost identical to last week (I wished I was in a different place to get a variation). About 1 hour 40 minutes. Struggled with the face proportions might try correcting that to make her face look less flat.