Own work: Life Drawing XLI

   Final life drawing now until September.  Another two pose, and another curate's egg.  I'm very pleased with the torso and legs but very unhappy with the face.  The second attempt too and very laboured.

Own work: Life Drawing XL

   The penultimate class of the year and an single two hour pose (half hour break in the middle - thankfully).

Own work: Life Drawing XXXIX

   The last three classes of the year I returned to pencil-crayon, a much easier medium to control in what is, after all, a time controlled setting.  Here is the first.

Own work: Life drawing XXXVIII

   I've a backlog of life drawings to post.  Here are the first.  A couple of watercolours with pencil shading and some wax resist.  Perhaps not one of my better days in the life room.  But like the curate's eg they are good in parts.

Own work: Portrait I

I've embarked on a new artistic direction inspired by the recent Hockney retrospective at Tate Britain: pencil-crayon portraiture of family and friends.  Here is the first which I did yesterday afternoon.  It has its faults!

Own work: Dietterlin

   Finally a new post!  Apologies for my absence; I've been having problems with my pc.  Here is my latest painting a Doric arch from the 'Architectura' ('Architectura: Von Austheilung, Symmetria und Proportion der Funff Seulen ') of Walter Dietterlin the Elder (1550 - 1599).  Dietterlin's treatise which was originally published in two parts was immensely influential in Northern Europe.  Elizabethan and Jacobean buildings are peppered with his decorative details.  

   I suppose that purist classical architects and architectural historians decry such stuff (and to be fair some of it is quite mad), but given a choice between Inigo Jones and Dietterlin I'd definitely choose the latter.  Much more fun.