The still life was themed around red and green. I had another go at painting a bottle -- it's funny to think that an item you know to be green must be painted almost entirely with reddish paint. If I'd had more time, I would have worked up the bright green tissue paper, and added a dark contrasting triangle of red velvet at the top-left. I'm also not happy with the shape of the biscuit tin, the angles are wrong. Adding sand to paint gave the velvet a nice fluffy texture, although I still hate painting impasto.
Life drawing... was done in clay this week. First we did some quick five minute sketches, we were encouraged to keep moving around the room to see the model from all angles. It wasn't important to be anatomically perfect, just to be expressive.
This was a five-minute sketch that I kept smoothing over and finessing during the break time.
A sketch made in wire. I'm very proud of this one, it's simple but you can tell what pose the model was sitting in. I thought a wire is a line, so you've got to treat it more like a drawing, even if you finish with a three-dimensional figure. I didn't want to make it too fiddly or elaborate because that would distract from the essential shape.
We ended the session with a longer pose. Everyone else managed to do a whole body, but I found it difficult to get the limbs right -- I kept getting the proportions wrong and then they snapped off, so I concentrated on moulding the head. The finished face reminded me so strongly of the puppets from the Little Angel marionette course! I wish I'd managed to do a full figure in the time, though.
This tickled me because it reminded me of the Sagrada Familia facade, or the Gates of Hell.
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