Drawing Jamie on 15/3/2011

Four quickies from the morning and afternoon sessions.

Then three experimental studies using different sets of pastel colours but seelcted for their tonal properties.

Finally I returned to the position from last week but closer to the model so I was looking down upon his head and shoulders from my two metre height.

Finally I did a pastel study of the head and shoulders.

Working from Life Class: Today's Nude [Channel 4, July 2009] Nos1

The model is Ken Fahy. Here I wanted to explore the qualitative differences between charcoal and pastel. At this time I was beginning to become aware that when I looked at flesh there were many colours, some warm, some cold,

and asking the question

'How does colour relate to tone?