Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Drinking Tea and Drawing People

Yesterday I went to the New English Art Club Exhibition at the Mall Galleries just before it closed. Many excellent works of art on view. This was followed by lunch with a very old friend and, inevitably, some christmas shopping and - as it was nearby - a much needed cup of tea and a seat in the Friends Room at the RA which was packed, probably with people with very much the same idea! I was surrounded by lots of people having animated conversations so out came the Moleskine sketchbook for more sketching with some interesting lighting effects.

 
Drinking Tea and Drawing People (updated Jan 2023)

I enjoy doing drawings where you can't design who is in the picture or how they are going to sit and all you can do is decide what/who to do and where to crop to create the picture frame. Drawing people and working from life are both excellent ways of making you make such choices.

(UPDATED January 2023 - due to the previous image displaying very small for some reason. Originally published on 20th December 2005 when I was working out how to use Blogger)


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