I can’t judge from personal experience, of course, but I imagine that during these summer days a blue linen dress is a wonderful thing. It certainly is to draw.
Following my Seawhite course last week, a portrait I’ve had in mind for a few weeks has changed somewhat in the planning. This pastel drawing of a blue dress is an essential element in the composition and I wanted it to be larger and looser than originally conceived. It has, I flatter myself, some of the feel of Jim Dine’s bathrobes about it if Dine were to entrust his work to a much less talented studio assistant.
I posted this on Instagram last week and it has attracted a positive response which, along with my own feelings after the Seawhite workshop, encourages me to continue with this looser approach. I used about eight different blues from four different pastel manufacturers in this, plus a couple of reds and greens to bring the blue alive, and every one of those off-white Unison pastels I can’t resist whenever I go into Cornelissen in London ‘just to look around’.
So this is the dress. Once I have the opportunity to photograph the subject of this portrait and consider some other elements in the composition I can move ahead. In the meantime consider this an element in a work in progress, larger and looser than before.
Excellent!
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Thanks, Kirk!
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Wow!
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Thank you so much!
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Terrific Michael!
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Thank you so much – very kind of you!
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I like the kind of ghostly figure background. (K)
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Thanks, Kerfe. That’s probably just my original guide for the head and arms. Thanks for looking so carefully!
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Second time around for *likes*!
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It has great personality that dress Michael, love the drawing just as it is. Sounds like you had a good time at the workshop
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Fabulous, Phil, thanks. Thanks too for your kind words about the blue dress. It will be developed further!
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love this drawing! More than just a drawing you had captured the personality, the portrait of this dress.
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Thank you, Marlene. I’m hoping to work on this further over the coming weeks.
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Gorgeous. Love the textures and the bold simplicity offset by subtlety and lovely layers of delicate details. Terrific!!
Kathryn
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Thanks ever so much, Kathryn. It was something of an experiment but one I really enjoyed.
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