Time was shuffled around and re-arranged over the week-end to give my pencils a wee gap to add a few more bricks and muscles.
Below the result of a few hours: a Clydesdale with an ever increasing chest and a wall with a new wonky bricks.
Next update coming soon….
©Copyright 2010 by Sheona Hamilton-Grant. See original post here.
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Due to big urgent commissions needing all my attention, weeks have gone by without Black on Grey on White featuring any WIP.
So, it is with great rejoicing jubilation that I post the first steps in my new non-commissioned drawing: Bricks and Stones.
The reference comes from my good friend & photographer Juliet Harrison. She spotted this Clydesdale while visiting Scotland last summer and let her camera record a wonderful vision.
The piece is big and complex with strong contrasts in both light, shapes and textures, a great subject and an unusual composition.
Masses to get my teeth dug into.
“Bricks and Stones” Step 1Tools chosen:
Mellotex paper
Derwent 2B & HB
Staedler Clutch F & 6B
The first step shows a few bricks who still need a big chunk of attention.
I’m drawing them as they come, having only mapped out horizontal lines to give me guidance. They are still time consuming as I have to figure exactly how best to render them. A first darker layer is made in 2B which I then refine with my HB…
Not sure it’s the best…Off up to work it out.
Will post soon.
Wishing you all a wonderful week-end wherever you are.
©Copyright 2010 by Sheona Hamilton-Grant. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit her website.
Have you all started thinking of Christmas and tackling it’s yearly challenges?
Affirmative at this end.
Christmas commissions: the challenge facing Black on Grey on White.
Keeping the surprise intact implies keeping the image and drawing hidden and therefore depriving my blog of a substantial amount of material.
To counter this, I have started a large new piece (26x61cm = 10″x24″).
A “full frontal” view.
My targeted subject Hurrican.
In August I was granted a private photo session with this gem of an equine(big thank you to the Warendorf National Stud) .
150 frames to work from . Really can’t help thinking this is the first in many Hurrican portraits.
Work will be done in-between commissions.
Slow progress a certainty.
Updates a promise.
Until then, feel free to get know this big chap: he has his own website.
It’s in German but a horse is a horse…right?
©Copyright 2009 by Sheona Hamilton-Grant. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit her website.
