Neil's Sketchblog

A couple more sketches from the life drawing weekend. A little less abstract these ones :

Had a weekend life drawing at Maryhill Art School. So much stuff from two days, I’ll put a few favourite sketches up here I think.

First, a couple of quite abstract ones I liked :

Project RBT is finished! Well, I’d like to think that Rest and Be Thankful is a subject I’ll come back to a good few times since it’s a place so special to me, but my first proper attempt at painting it is done, and I’m fairly happy. It certainly beats my previous lanscapes I think so that’s a win.

For comparison, this is the photo I worked from mostly. I used others for specific reference points and did my usual throwing the colours out the window, but this was the compositional inspiration:

Hope you like it!

Some more work on the overall depth (bit in the background, bit in the foreground, some glazes in the sky and middle mountain…), but mostly I worked on the sky today. I reckon the cloud formations are pretty key to capturing the weather conditions and that was the main thing.

Yup, my cloud obsession strikes again…

This might be finished actually. I’m mulling over titles just now.

(WIP #3 never made it by the way)

More layering on top of the underpainting from yesterday, and also a general cooling of the image. I don’t imagine landscapes will ever be my thing but it’s a fun exercise from time to time.

Start of a landscape based on some photos taken at Rest and Be Thankfull just before Christmas.

Probably the piece of music that I’ve most wanted to paint in 2009. A couple of short sections from Rhian Sheehan’s Standing in Silence with beautiful visuals too.

Those penguins getting a delivery from Santa Paws..