drawing – Page 18 – Kaiser Caimo

Quick figure study. Graphite and white pencil on brown paper.

Head study. Graphite and white pencil on brown paper.

Head study. Graphite and white pencil (Staedtler Glasochrom) on brown paper.

Girls who post photos on the internet, I salute you. (This is Lily.)

Edit: better quality image.

It feels good to draw bodies again.

Pencil sketch, manipulated in Photoshop.

In between semi-abstract landscape paintings that I despair of ever finishing, I’ve been trying to remember how to draw. Focusing on hands, wrists & elbows.

Pencil sketches on paper (detail).

Female head study. Monoprint, approx 5×7", and the preliminary sketch.

Female figure study. Monoprint + white pencil. Approx 5×8"

I had these prints stashed away in a folder because they didn’t print right and I thought they looked sloppy and illegible. Then I decided, ACTUALLY, I quite like them. So here they are.

Monoprint + graphite/white pencil, approx 5"x7"

Further experiments in ink and bleach. These Winsor & Newton colours are all obnoxiously bright to begin with, and the effect of the bleach varies: it knocks a garish aquamarine back to a nice, faded denim colour but it turns emerald ink into a hideous acid green. I tried to subdue this figure with a wash of purple but I think it’s less interesting as well as less offensive now.

I’m having enormous trouble with colour in general lately. I can’t get colours to chime. I’ll either have to start limiting my palette again or just be more considered in my approach and plan in advance how I want different parts of a painting to interact. Booooo-ring.

Ink, bleach, watercolour & pencils on Bockingford paper, approx 12"x6".

Another head study. Ink, bleach, watercolour & pencils on Bockingford paper.