Today we drew and painted noses and mouths. As before, we made blind continuous line drawings to help us see more accurately. When we make these drawings, we are looking at our subject one hundred percent of the time. We are seeing what is really there, rather than a preconception that we might have in the mind.
Some people pulled and pushed their noses into differing positions resulting in some really interesting and expressive drawings. I think in particular all the continuous-line noses that were drawn today are wonderful, they are so full of life, but we do also have some really characterful mouths. Well done everyone.
We then went on to study other artists’ work, looking to see how they had portrayed noses and mouths and we copied from these works to learn for ourselves. We then drew our own noses and mouths. Media used was pencil, charcoal, pen, and watercolour.
There are two landscape watercolours at the end, one is a Holmfirth townscape, and the other is a Spanish view (I’ve forgotten which part of Spain!), as well as a Matisse inspired watercolour interior, watercolour Zen mountains with figure, and watercolour and gouache flowers and jug.
A great session, thank you all!
