Where It All Happens – The Drawing Board
Jul 19, 2010 art
Today I thought I’d just post a couple of pictures of my drawing board (since I cleaned it up) and the ‘tools of the trade’.
All nice and clean! OK, apart from the ink marks, but they just won’t come out, I’ve tried… trust me!
On the window ledge is my little lamp, I only use it to light a subject in a still life. On the right-hand side of the ledge is my mannequin, it’s only about 10″ tall and really handy for when I need to draw a pose or sometimes I light it with the lamp and do a quick sketch of it for practice. On the board is some A3 paper, to give you sense of scale… it’s a pretty big board. Top left of it is my masking fluid (white top) ink (black top) then my pencils and ink brushes. Right side of the board is my (homemade) tub of charcoal dust, pencils and charcoal, pastels, pastel pencils then more pastels.
Hey, look, it’s my pencils and what-not! From top to bottom:
- Pipette (for moving ink from bottle to brush pen)
- Masking fluid (for watercolour/ink stuff)
- Black ink
- Sandpaper (for sharpening pastels/pencils/eraser)
- ink pens
- erasers (rubber and kneadable)
- technical pencil
- masking fluid brush
- couple more brushes for blending charcoal/pencil
- ink brush (put ink in the reservoir then effectively paint with it)
- one more ink pen
- (homemade) tortillon for blending charcoal/pencil
- dip pen (for ye olde style inking)
- another blending brush
- another ink pen
- and, last but not least, my battery powered eraser.
Ooh, pastels!
Top left is my tub of charcoal dust, made by rubbing a piece of dark charcoal over my sandpaper and letting the dust fall into the rub, perfect for rubbing in to the paper to give me a neutral tone to start with. Top right is my tin of pencils (the six pencils you see are red, white, charcoal then three graphite pencils) by Derwent. It also has three sticks of graphite (top of the tin) and three stick of charcoal (bottom of the tin). Beside the tin of pencils are some of my pieces of pastel. The thin square sticks are hard pastel, the others are soft pastel. Middle of the photo is my tin of pastel pencils, also by Derwent, these are various colours and are quite hard, good for doing detailed work. Bottom of the photo is some more hard and soft pastels.
So there you go, a quick look behind the scenes of where my pastel and pencil drawings come from!
Tags: blending, brush, brush pen, charcoal, dip, eraser, graphite, hard, ink, kneadable, lead, mannequin, pastel, pen, pencil, rubber, soft, studio
Best of Worldwide Artists in Charcoal, Pastel and Pencil!
Jun 10, 2010 art, pastel, pencil
Finally, the book Best of Worldwide Artists in Charcoal, Pastel and Pencil is released!
I’m featured on pages 90 and 91 with my pastel illustrations of American Werewolf in London and African Wild Dog.
It’s a good quality book. The pages are very colourful and glossy with dozens of artists in each book. I should also mention that I’m (obviously) in the J – Z volume as the Charcoal, Pastel and Pencil set is two volumes. You can preview/buy the book (or both) from: http://www.bestofartists.com/best-of-books/?currentPage=6
Here are my entries:
Tags: african, american, artist, best, book, charcoal, dog, pastel, pencil, published, werewolf, wild, worldwide
Shop (finally!) updated
Jun 5, 2010 site
I’ve added six of my charcoal drawings to the shop.
Sorry horror fans, the original Freddy and Jason drawings stay with me, but prints are available of them, or you can drop me an email to commission a drawing. As long as it’s not gigantic in size, or overly complex, I could do an A3 charcoal drawing for about £30-40 (unframed and not including postage).
Tags: art, artwork, charcoal, drawing, oils, original, paint, pastel, pencil, prints, shop
three original paintings up for ebay auction – grab a bargain!
Nov 19, 2009 art
I’ve put three of my paintings up on eBay for auction. The starting price is a mere £5, no reserve, so you could end up grabbing yourself an absolute bargain here! The three paintings are:
We Are Sailing
T-rex
Sparrow
More paintings will be going up soon, so bookmark my ‘other items‘ page to see more, as and when they go up!
Tags: auction, bird, dinosaur, ebay, landscape, oil, original, painting, pastel, sparrow, t-rex
