Portraits & the Figure
My engagement with formal portraiture has been limited, but throughout my life as an artist I have always sought to represent the human figure mainly through formal life and figure drawing sessions. As primarily a 'painter' these sessions have proved invaluable in rooting my practice in the discipline of drawing.
The drawings in this group of galleries were created for the most part during an evening life class facilitated by the artist Kate Simms. They are based on poses by the models maintained for periods ranging from 5 mins. up to c. 30 mins., occasionally a little longer.
The medium used was deliberately kept simple in order to emphasise the capture of form and mass by the use of line and simple shading. This remains true even where coloured media have been used.
The drawings have been arranged into three galleries viz. The Female Figure, The Male Figure and Portraits. With a few exceptions the images in the Portrait Gallery are not portraits in the strict sense, but drawings of heads and faces of the life class models executed in the same context as the figure drawings.
My engagement with formal portraiture has been limited, but throughout my life as an artist I have always sought to represent the human figure mainly through formal life and figure drawing sessions. As primarily a 'painter' these sessions have proved invaluable in rooting my practice in the discipline of drawing.
The drawings in this group of galleries were created for the most part during an evening life class facilitated by the artist Kate Simms. They are based on poses by the models maintained for periods ranging from 5 mins. up to c. 30 mins., occasionally a little longer.
The medium used was deliberately kept simple in order to emphasise the capture of form and mass by the use of line and simple shading. This remains true even where coloured media have been used.
The drawings have been arranged into three galleries viz. The Female Figure, The Male Figure and Portraits. With a few exceptions the images in the Portrait Gallery are not portraits in the strict sense, but drawings of heads and faces of the life class models executed in the same context as the figure drawings.
