Rosy Carrick!!!

Last night at Kate Shields' local celebrity drawing session our sitter was the beautiful and talented poet Rosy Carrick. I've drawn the stunning Rosy a few times before and she's always an inspiration.

Here are my best efforts. If you want to see Rosy in MC-ing action go along to the poetry bash at the Komedia tonight.

Alice themed drawing night

Last night there was another of Jake Spicer's themed drawing events. This time the theme was Alice  in Wonderland and we were treated to 4 different models (Lucy, Laura, Frankie and Ian) dressed in the style of some of Lewis Carroll's characters. The evening was great fun although personally, I was fading fast after a heavy work load and was feeling a bit "drawn out". Anyway, here are my best efforts tickled up a bit in Photoshop.

4 Lucys

Despite battling an almost impossible deadline (more of which on a future blog) I hoisted a drawing session at my place for me and Alexa. We hired Lucy Victoria Sponge to model for us. She's always a pleasure to draw and we both got some good work out of a fun session. here are my favourites.

Big Emma

Last night's life drawing session featured Big Emma. It made a nice change to draw a larger lady after all the slim and lissome lovelies that we normal have to suffer here in Brighton. Here are my best efforts.

Men in Hats

I seem to be following a theme of men in hats at the moment. Here's Don Draper from the sublime TV show MadMen and the Basil Rathbone version of Sherlock Holmes. I'm working on a bigger digital painting of my 4 favourite Holmeses and Baz is the first one.

Mucking about with textures

In my ventures into digital artwork I thought I'd try beginning with a texture and working it up in Photoshop. These are the first efforts. The one on the left is a mash-up of noir characters in a sci-fi setting. I call it Space-Noir and it's probably been done before but not much. The one on the right was inspired by a short story by award winning writer and poet Lorna Kent called The Flying Baby.

Kate Shields

In yesterday's life drawing session at The Sussex Arts Club the looooooominous Kate Shields was our model.

I've drawn Kate a few times and she's always inspiring. Here are my best efforts.