Painted houses

The writing on the wall

Street art in Brighton.

Work by Gary Stranger, more at https://garystranger.com

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Museum entrance

Figure drawing

A snapshot of some of the sketches I made yesterday at the figure drawing class run by Debbie Hinks.  The theme, in case you haven't guessed, was Pirates of the Caribbean!

More information on Debbie's excellent classes at http://debbiehinks.com

Brighton Workshop Six - colour as background

The last session of the Brighton Workshop was with Swasky, who showed the group how to use colour to indicate the mid-ground and background.

Brighton Workshop Five - three layers in one sketch

In the second session with Isabel Carmona, we looked at dividing up the sketch into three sections - foreground, middle ground and background.  In these two sketches I tried to emphasis different aspects of the view.

Brighton Workshop Four - positioning figures

The second session from Rolf Scroeter focussed using your eye level to position figures in a scene. 'Post-it' notes, which we drew people on, were used to help the group understand the principles.

Brighton Workshop Three - outline shapes

The third session of the Brighton Workshop was with Swasky and concentrated on outline shapes of people using a brush pen.

Brighton Workshop One - Long lines and closed shapes

Thought it would be a good idea to revisit my notes and drawings from the recent Brighton Workshop as it would be so easy to forget some of the excellent advice from the tutors.

The first workshop was with Rolf Schroeter, starting with blind contour drawings of people walking by in Kensington Gardens.

Then we had to study the people but only draw without looking up. 

In the final exercise, we were asked to make a scene, just using the people, no buildings or context.

Bank Holiday Brighton

Day Two of Brighton Workshop

Exciting weekend ahead!

Painted houses

Colourful terrace in Brighton.

Drawing workshop in Brighton

I had a really enjoyable day yesterday at a drawing workshop in Brighton run by Debbie Hinks.

We started by making ten minute studies of the model.

First a standing pose...

then a seated one...

 

...then using continuous line on black paper.

For the main pose which lasted over an hour, we switched to colour.

It's been a while since I used pastels and charcoal, or have been to a tutored class, and it was a refreshing experience!

Find out more about Debbie's classes at http://debbiehinks.com/

Snowdogs by the sea

Two designs I've submitted for the 'Snowdogs by the sea' project which is happening later on inthe year in Brighton.

on the train

Brighton paintbox

I drew a Croydon paintbox last year and was asked to do a Brighton one by one of my Twitter followers, so here it is!

takeaway

Life's a beach