Sekaido - 2013

2013 entry - F3 canvas / Acrylics

Initially setting out for a bugs-eye-view visual, missed the mark a fair bit. With a few more hours I'd like to have darken the women's facial contours a little, as the light against dark backdrop was a little harsh. But all in all, scaling up on last years work, creating 2 pieces on a right deadline, it didn't turn out half bad!

2012 entry - F2 canvas / Acrylics

During lunch

Working within deadlines helps to keep momentum. This one took just over an hour.

Claying

The past few weeks I'd been peeling back pieces of paper, cutting and tearing to understand the basics a little better while sketching.

Clay would help to understand the lighting a little better, but actually it was just a whole lot of fun to play with.

Light contrast.

The way the flex influences the folded areas was pretty unexpected so I'll look at including it for future works.

The exercise was more fun than informative, but in a way that proved pretty informative. The best part of the whole thing was mashing the clay back into a ball for next time!

Gold Ring

A4 wood - Acrylics / pencils

It'd been a while since I'd last tried a portrait and felt this worked our pretty well.

Although this took a little over 2 hours, I'd made the mistake of thinking her eyes would balance naturally. The left side of her face is exactly what I was looking for.. The right side, not so much.