Skull

I recently bought myself an anatomy book to help out with my life drawing. My sister tells me skulls have been 'in' for a couple of years, and as usual, being the laggard I am, I have only just recently bought myself a skull tshirt. Given this, I thought it might be appropriate to start my anatomy drawing skills with a skull, who somehow seems to look inordinately happy with himself. It must be those nice shiny teeth!

Saturdays

This is some of the work I've done in the class I have on Saturdays. It's always a total struggle to get out of bed to make it to class, but it's definitely been worth it. The first one is using tertiary colours, which were really cool to mix and to work with. The charcoal one is based on a 3D construction I did in class which itself was based on drawings of dead plant matter. Part of the piece I've then recreated into an oil painting which it sounds like it will be part of the student exhibition at Leith School of Art in December. My first time being in an exhibition, pretty exciting! It's cool to now look back and see where the Saturday morning class was headed and to have some output to show. I'm also glad to have such good lecturers!