‘Sourire Toujours’ Sanguine Portrait of a Child A3 Hanhemaille ‘Nostalgia’ © The Artist. Been off holidaying with my wife & two young children. Family time. We went to Britanny, near Carnac with its standing stones (which really caught my boy’s imagination!) & its beautiful silver sand beaches. We stayed with some good old friends, a…
Category: Children
Drawings & paintings of children, loose expressive & tender.
elly 14 – 5 -08
elly 14 – 5 – 08 a A5 sketchbook – graphite pencil © The Artist. elly 14 – 5 – 08 b A5 sketchbook – graphite pencil © The Artist.
‘dodo’ pencil sketch of a child asleep
‘dodo’ 2008 A5 sketchbook -pencil © The Artist. “Every child is an artist.” dodo (fr) = zzzzzzz (en) aren’t they adorable when they are asleep 😉
GOLD STAR
One of my winter jobs is to wash my painting hat. That’s the hat that’s become something of a ‘signature’. You can see me wearing it in my blogger profile photograph. But I don’t always get first turn to wear it however. Here it’s the ‘gold star’ kid whose wearing it…
ML & Val – bibi & telly
bibi (fr) = bottle (en) telly = something in the living room…
Dessin ‘Sur La Vif’ d’un Enfant
C rayon A4 © The Artist. Dessin ‘Sur La Vif’ d’un Enfant = drawing of a child , done ‘on the hoof’, whilst in action.
Val – Christmas Eve
‘Val – Christmas Eve’ graphite pencil, A3 sheet © The Artist. Television helps to turn the necessary blind eye, so that Santa can come down the chimney… The ‘likeness’ part of a portrait. I feel there’s something not quite right about this drawing. The likeness isn’t right. Also, he looks , well, abit deformed as…
a year ago today
detail ‘three months’ Sanguine pencil 40 x 40 cm © The Artist. A year ago today my daughter was born.
Drawing of maternity – massive forms
‘Bibi de Noël’ A3 sheet, grahite pencil © The Artist. Christmas bibi (bottle).Another drawing done ‘sur la vif’ (on the hoof), where you have to grab the essentials of the action because the models are moving & will break pose at any moment. Go for the drama of the pose. The drama, & not so…
Val 19/12/07
Graphite Pencil A3 sheet © The Artist. detail Another drawing with not a good enough likeness. The profile is such a crucial line. The morning after having drawn V. during his evening session of telly watching, I revised this line as I was unhappy with the form of the nose & the bridge through to…