All are A1 drawings.
Nos 1: charcoal on smooth cartridge paper. The initial drawing is pushed back with a brush, then a final set of lines define the figure.
Nos 2: charcoal on clear gesso treated cartridge paper.
Nos 3: pastel, on beige newsprint.
Nos 4: a ten minute charcoal on gesso at the end of the day.
Now to Thursday.
Nos 5: pastel. The paper is treated with clear gesso with a touch of acrylic paint and pieces of tissue paper painted on to the surface with the gesso (these treatments are prepared the night before and allowed to dry overnight).
Nos 6: charcoal on clear gesso treated cartridge paper.
Nos 7: a very quick exercise with minimal lines. We were supposed to use only 5 lines.
Nos 8: for this I used an HB pencil with blue pastel, but on a drawing of Angela from some months ago which I had over-painted with clear gesso and a touch of acrylic colour.
Nos 9: charcoal, and again using an earlier drawing of Angela treated the same as Nos 8.
For me, a very satisfying week in which some new experimentation took me along a slightly different path in my life-drawing journey.
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