Inspirational paintings found on Twitter

I really like the detail and expression of motion in these paintings. They come across as very intimidating and angry.

Benoit Maire Thebes

On the 22nd of October I went to a Benoit Maire Thebes exhibition at Spike island. (visual philosopher). His work is quite interesting because he has a simple approach to drawing clouds which are his fascination. He likes to dip in and out of abstraction and figuration when painting them. One of his major inspirations

Painting Workshop

The Painting workshop with Rebecca Harper was quite interesting as their was  a lot I learned from the couple of hours that we had with her. Wetting the A2 paper before painting with acrylics gave a bleeding effect when mark making. As opposed to painting more briskly on dry paper. The Smoothness of wet painting

Panorama from studio

The next exercise with Rebecca Harper we did a life drawing with two soft pencils masking taped together. The effect was quite interesting as the repetition of line made for a more messy picture however it kept its sense of perspective. I started on one A2 piece of paper and then gradually continued the panorama

Distance drawing bamboo

With a workshop with Rebecca Harper we did some distance drawing holding bamboo sticks with graphite in the end. We started by holding the stick at the end and then after each five minute drawing we would move our hand gradually up the stick to challenge our hand eye coordination. I found the exercise quite

Photoshop experiments

Josep Tapiró i Baró water colour inspiration

Amazing water colours by  Josep Tapiró i Baró. The woman top left have had the white tones revealed by leaving the paper in some areas left blank.

Sketches 17/10/18

 

Dryden Goodwin

Dryden Goodwin’s work is inspirational to me because of how he draws figuratively with lots of detail however encapsulates the space really well. He subject matter is interesting to me. From moving to a city from the countryside the angular lines and geometric shapes he draws create a dynamic feel. And have real depth to

Continuous life drawing exercise

This morning we had a drawing workshop. We drew our interesting objects by holding the object in front of us in the air and then almost tracing around the object. I brought in a piece of tropical gnarled wood. We then did continuous life drawing of either objects and people faces. By moving around the