My figure drawing class is proving somewhat challenging but I'm slowly getting into the swing of things. Last night we worked on 3 sketches of the same pose in pastels. This is the most finished one though as you can see her arm still has a bit of a way to go. I'm still struggling with tones, and mid-tones especially. I recently went to an exhibition of Astrid Trugg at the henderson gallery www.thehendersongallery.com/current.html. I really enjoyed her pieces, especially the boats (and was checking out her use of tones) and the way she collaged pieces of newspaper into her work, which I thought worked really well. I am also very much in love with one of the paintings showing at the moment at the Open Eye Galley but it doesn't look like they have it on the website http://www.openeyegallery.co.uk/. I'll have to find out the artist - I wish you could see it.
