Month: March 2014

Figure painting once again

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2014/03/10
2 Comments on Figure painting once again

I really enjoyed my return to watercolouring at life drawing. It turned out to be a rather special day, the intended model never turned up and we were all packing our bags to go home when this beautiful Russian girl volunteered to pose. It turns out that she was an expert at posing, really beautiful poses. She must have done art-modelling before. ( The model who did not turn up was the uninspiring one I had last week, so you can guess how happy I was about our bit of luck. )

Five minute watercolour nude

Two minute nude

5 minute nude

David Meldrum figure painting Nude Watercolour

Skin-tones

Post author By meldrum
Post date 2014/03/05
2 Comments on Skin-tones

I painted this nude from an image I found on the internet. I think it’s a good effort, but of course there are things like skin-tones and a hand that I’m not totally happy with. The point of this watercolour though was for me to practice and learn and I certainly did discovered many positives and negatives while doing it. The battle for mastery goes on …

Watercolour female nude by David Meldrum

90 minute nude, 20140305

Alvaro Castagnet Herman Pekel Joseph Zbukvic Video Watercolour Watercolouring

The Three Amigos

This is a must see video if you enjoy the work of any of these watercolouring greats, Joseph Zbukvic, Herman Pekel and Alvaro Castagnet. I owe at lot of what I’ve learned to these artists and their wonderful DVDs.

David Meldrum figure drawing My Life Drawing Nude Nudes

Looking for inspiration …

It isn’t easy to do life drawing when one isn’t inspired by the model. At least I wasn’t at first, but then after I had spent some time studying the model’s overweight and untrained frame I noticed he had an interesting face, so I focused on that. I sound like a bitch, I’ll probably burn in hell!

15 minute sketch

10 minute sketch

David Meldrum Sketch

Shading practice

Drawn from a reference on my computer screen. I practice my tonal values and shading a lot at the moment. It’s something I have done very little of in the past. It really is important to get a good understanding of tonal value in art.

Shading practice