All my time has been spent making stencils and collagraphs and I have very little to show for it! I have spent a lot of time trying to get ink to do what I tell it and failed miserably...like a naughty child, it does not want to behave!
...so for a little light relief I spent the early hours of this morning doing pastels whilst listening to BBC Radio 4 on the internet.
The programme was "How the Mighty Have Fallen"!- a history of obesity!
The task was to copy an old master, concentrating on tone and shading.
This is a bit of Lucian Freuds "Benefits supervisor resting". 1994
I think I learnt a lot, especially about shadow and shading and highlights. It has pacified (for a while) my bizarre desire to paint a fat person. My teenager says its "disturbing".
On reflection I think she simply isn't fat enough!
On reflection I think she simply isn't fat enough!
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