Warm Up Eric Kennington ‘The War God’
Eric Kenningtons 'The War God'
A very quick sketch of the statue ‘The War God’ at Leeds Art Gallery. You can see the original here . I was at the gallery for, the very last Leeds Sketchers Meet, which was appropriate, as it was where the first one was inFebruary last year. Though it is the last ‘Leeds Sketchers Meet’, it is not the last time we are meeting. We will be meeting in March under the name, The Leeds Savage Club. Check out this link after the 3rd of March for details.
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Posted by Chance Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Categories: Warm Up Excercises
Tags: Eric Kennington, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds Sketching Group, Speed Sketch, Statue, The War God, Warm up
Latin Rock #2
Latin Rock #2
Back to the Latin Rock for a warm up. This time, I used just an HB and and a 2H pencil in this sketch, concentrating more on the detail. In fact, went to town a bit and it would be fair to say I overdid it.
It interesting, though at a slightly different angle from my first latin rock sketch, which concentrated on the shading.
I can see in my mind now, how if i was going to do a proper drawing of the rock, I would combine the two. Where I would use detail and where I would shading.
Well worthwhile exercise in doing the two separate drawings.
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Posted by Chance Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010
Categories: Warm Up Excercises
Tags: 2H, HB, Latin Rock, Shading, Warm up
Speed Sketch #5
After much cobweb collecting, The Leeds Sketching Group is back. I myself, have taken over the reins and we had our first new meet this sunday gone, at the Leeds City Museum.
I am also involved in the running of the Leeds writing group , I write fiction mainly set in the Belle Epoque, which you can find over here at The Dead Adventurers Club . I mention this, as I’m currently looking at bringing the two under the same umbrella. Watch this space
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Posted by Chance Date: Monday, February 1, 2010
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: Leeds City Museum, Leeds Sketching Group, Speed Sketch, Warm up
Latin Rock #1
Latin Rock
I’ve retired my one arm manikin for now, and have a new model for my warm up excerises. Say Hello to the Latin Rock! This rock I picked up when I was in Canada and visting Mt.Revelstoke . Its a piece of Hematite and I don’t know why, I haven’t thought of using it to draw before as its absolute great.
Firstly, with the aide of a torch I can create hundreds of different shapes, I’ve posted a few pictures up here on flickr, such as this one to show you what I mean.
Secondly, there is the surface;One side of the rock, the iron ore is exposed and is rich in reds and brown and relatively smooth. The other side, is grey and looks like its gone through some heat and compression, which has left grooves and layers.
Thirdly, Its small and fits nicely on the shelve next to my desk and it was free. What more could you want ?
For my first drawing, I thought I would get out just the B pencils that I use and not worry about detail or shape so much,but instead focus on where I would use those pencils on the drawing.
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Posted by Chance Date: Monday, January 11, 2010
Categories: Warm Up Excercises
Tags: B, Latin Rock, Shading, Warm up
Blind Sketch #8
Blind Sketch #8
As you can see he is still missing an arm.
I have added to the right hand side of my blog – right near the bottom, a blog roll for some other artists blogs that I follow.
The artists are all of different abilities and the main reason I have chosen to follow them is I find their commentary refreshing and honest.
Its not very prominent at the moment, If someone knows of a good wordpress plug in for blogrolls let us know, drop us a comment.
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Posted by Chance Date: Friday, December 11, 2009
Categories: Warm Up Excercises
Tags: Blind Sketch, Manikin, Warm up
