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Last Summer my friend Rich, who is in a band called Also Eden dropped me an email. He asked “have you ever done artwork for an album cover?”…
What you do with twenty minutes left over at the end of life drawing class.
Since we’re on life drawings, here’s one from the downtime. Normally when a model has tattoos I avoid them, but this drawing wasn’t coming together until I tried…
Life drawing – charcoal.
The trip to Logierait had more to give. After a stormy day (the latter part of which we spent in the pub) we returned to the lodge late…
Late last Summer we took a trip up to Logierait, which is a small village near Pitlochry in Perthshire. I took the opportunity to attempt my very first…
Looks like I had a couple of works in progress up of this one. The provisional title stuck, and Two Roads was finished late last Summer. Oil on…
It has been a while hasn’t it? Well it’s not because I haven’t been doing, because I have, but I had some technical issues with the blog which…
Wow, a few posts to catch up on but life drawing started back tonight after the summer break so might as well start with something new. Was quite…
The Love Supreme project has developed quite a bit, and I realised I hadn’t posted an update. I got discouraged with it so it sat for quite a…
Sometimes the quick sketches at life class come out kinda interesting. This is three 5 minute sketches on the same sheet. I think I will just start firing…
I have a new Facebook page. If you are a Facebook user please pop by and hit “like” or even “share”. Thanks! Http://www.facebook.com/NeilMcChrystalFineArt
I started a new landscape in oils. It wasn’t going well so I mixed all the blue of the sky and the green of the land together, and…
Couple of updates to the website: Presence added to paintings. The full Sky Blue series now has a page of its own. Portrait of a Scot added to…
My first sculpture utilising found objects. [EDIT] My career as a conceptual sculptor lasted only for the duration of April Fool’s Day, you’ll be pleased to know 🙂
I thought this chap looked somehow very Scottish. Must be the beard.
Leonardos are like buses. You wait three hundred years for one…. After the discovery of Salvator Mundi, conveniently just in time for the National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition, it’s…
I will be exhibiting at the Olympus art show in the Radisson Edwardian Hotel at Heathrow over Easter weekend. Pieces on display (and for sale!) will be: Oxygene…
…and we’re finished! 28 drawings in 28 days! The last one was always going to be banana related 😉
On home straight now, and searching the flat for stuff to draw….
I would love to do some proper drawings from the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum someday. This is a quick sketch taken from a book.
Sort of a prequel to drawing six, which proved popular.