Persephone | Artist

A 20 x 20 cm acrylic painting on cotton board. The painting shows a woman with faded red dyed hair. Her her is tilted up and turned slightly to her right. There is a strong light on the upper left part of her face ans the rest is in shadow with orange reflected light. The painting is sitting on a canvas.

Testing out a new medium. 20 x 20 cm #acrylic on cotton board. Painted #allaprima.

Just let myself relax and enjoy the process. I loved rendering the expression and getting to play with the sub-surface scattering of the skin.

I have a tonne of small boards to use.

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Yeah I can definitly see that. Will have to see which one I'm vibing with tomorrow when I set up to paint on the canvas.

Bottom right was the one my partner liked, left on the second was one I quite liked.

A set of quick 10 minute colour compositions for a painting I am planning.

Which do you like the best?

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I shall certainly keep that in mind!

Thank you!

A work in progress charcoal drawing of a female figure. There is a backgrpund gradient running from the top left to the bottom right. The female figure is partially rendered with the top part of her torso and face rendered and the lower body only blocked in in flat shadow shapes.

Tonights progress on my figure drawing.

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Thank you so much! Looking forward to starting the rendering next week.

Thank you!

Life drawing at the atelier this week. Very happy with the likeness in the features.

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A male figure on a crucifix. The figure is only visible through flat coloured shadow shapes.

More progress on my Atelier master copy today. So excited to get to rendering.

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A work in progress charcoal drawing of a woman standing with her right arm reaching behind her head and her left arm resting against her left hip which is cocked to the side. There is a toned gradient background going from her right to her left. The majority of the drawing is a single tone shadow block in but the face has both shadow and light rendering in progress.

I've started the rendering. It's going okay, sometimes I am loving how it looks, sometimes I hate it and want to scrap it. But the horrors persist and so shall I.

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Went to a Fringe show and decided to attempt drawing the cast of Lost in Translation while they performed. It was a fun and challenging task.

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Would love to hear how you get on with it. Nice to see another artwod member out in the wild 💚

I know it's pretty cool how many there are. I picked the sketchbook one as I thought it would go nicely with the beginner one and I could fill my sketchbook with my practice and have fun with some purely sketchbook exercises. I'd recommend it.

Just finished part 1 of the beginner road map, now moving onto carving boxes ect. So still very early days. I'm also doing the sketchbook course at the moment in parallel.

Same here, definitely helps that the lessons are short but informative. Means I can find some time each day to do at least 1 lesson and some practice.

Yeah I'm going through the artwod course and it's definitely highlighting where I need more work.

Sketchbooking today, messing around with observational drawing and then invention drawing where I attempt to draw the same object from an imagined angle. A very humbling exercise.

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Well she's all blocked in. Now to get it super flat and smooth and then we can start on the rendering.

What shall I render first?

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All transferred and getting the shadows blocked in with charcoal.

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Practicing my figure drawing looking forward to starting the rendering in charcoal once this is transferred.

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Back at the Atelier working on my master copy in carbon. Just getting those shadows all blocked in.

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Working on the shadow block in of my master copy. This will eventually be rendered in either charcoal or carbon pencil.

Excited to get rendering!

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Stage 1 of my second Bargue done, now to transfer it to some good quality paper and start rendering.

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Love the colour and the design.

More in progress work from the Edinburgh Atelier of Fine Art. Really feel like this piece is coming along, lots of shape work but rewarding to see it progressing.

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Thank you, I was inspired by a book called "The Guerilla Art Kit" by Keri Smith. I did put my Instagram handle on it because if someone does pick it up it would be fun to know where it ended up but also no guarantee I'll ever know where it finds a home.

Planning on doing many more around Leith

That's the goal, to spread some art and joy during trying times.

The distressing case of the missing duckling

Putting my first post-it painting out in the wild for someone to find.

If you are in #Edinburgh #leith see if you can find it!

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