29/03/2010 by Gina Wright.

This is a study I did today using mostly muted grey shades of pastels. The colours helped to capture the feeling of mood and drama I felt about the scene.

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29/03/2010 by Gina Wright.

I did this oil pastel sketch on the first day of the life drawing workshop. Each pose by the model was for 5 mins. The model would go into another pose for the next 5 mins and so on until she had done six different poses. I started in the centre of my paper with my lightest yellow oil pastel. The drawings were layered on top of previous sketches using stronger coloured oil pastels as I progressed. This was a real fun exercise.

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26/03/2010 by Gina Wright.

This sketch was done in 40minutes at the workshop on day one. I used charcoal, pastel and conte.

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26/03/2010 by Gina Wright.

This week I  attended a  two day Life Drawing Workshop at Dundee College. It was excellent and a great opportunity to create lively interesting sketches. This sketch incorporated two models with a background setup of bikes and brightly coloured flags. There were a total of four models.  The models moved around the games hall to allow artists to have a change of model for each drawing.

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17/03/2010 by Gina Wright.

This was the life study I did at last weeks life drawing class. I started with a light drawing in conte then washes of gouache and finally drawing again in conte and some pastels.

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15/03/2010 by Gina Wright.

This study was done on a very rough ground which I prepared myself. Once my surface was prepared I was inspired by the way the colours looked on the surface, and I was lead to paint something from my imagination.

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11/03/2010 by Gina Wright.

This was a painting I finished the other day. I do so love sand dunes and that glimpse of the sea.

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06/03/2010 by Gina Wright.

Last week I did a large collage life drawing 21 inches by 30 inches. This was done over two weeks with 2 hour sessions. I started by using gesso on the paper surface. Once dry I added strips of glossy magazines approx the shape of the figure. Then more gesso and acrylic paint. Some of the background paper shows through. Quite messy however good fun. A great way to achieve some interesting effects.

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