Life-drawing from Tuesday’s session in town. My Achilles heel of life-drawing is still the feet (GEDDIT? HAR.) Feet have always been difficult to draw for me. They’re a trapezoid form, explained a tutor once. Which was only slightly helpful.
under the expert eye of Frances Breen in NCAD. It was nice to be back in the independent republic of NCAD, even just for three days, engaged in such an absorbing task. We made accordion books, did Japanese binding, embossing, coptic binding. It was really good.
It approaches! I am printing and folding like something that prints and folds a lot.
I’ve been meaning to go to the Dublin Comic Jam monthly meeting for ages; I finally did, and I am so glad. These people are like me! It was like that David Sedaris short story in which, he a “fastidious dresser in 50’s clothing” meets another fastidious dresser of that epoque and exclaims “You’re one of me!” …
The Castles in the Air show has been up for a few weeks now, beautifully hung by Aoife O’Toole. (Thank you, Aoife.) Here’s the newsletter she wrote for the show. Thanks also for the kind mention she made of me and my work on Dublin City FM‘s Good Morning Dublin today. Aoife is greatness!
Here I am at Abner Brown’s, absorbing the atmos. What a place – such an interesting subject to draw. Ah yes, it’s good to get out. Thank you, Dave [Mr Abner Brown’s] and Peter. And, thanks to Aoife of The Mill for all the help hanging my show which will hang till August, in the afore-mentioned …
This was a bit of a revelation -you can use them to make forms, like in painting and for line, as in drawing. Cool!
.. of REMORSE is in the pipeline. I like when it gels in my head to the point where I can rough it out – especially because this is a portable activity that can – and really, really should – be undertaken in a coffee shop. This makes me happy. Also happily, the middle act blues are over, I …
It’s so hard and yet so simple. But always useful. I came across a really good session in Dublin, in a lovely Georgian room, with great models.
I disagree with all that snooty art college talk about not using photo reference to draw. It does depends how you do it, of course. No point doing something photorealistic – that is the realm of – you know – photos, but to use it to study poses or freeze action on the telly so you …