Nude a week 28: Three colour acrylic of a seated nude

I painted this a few days ago.  I painted it in three layers using acrylic on  watercolour paper.  I began using just yellow, then I worked with cyan, and finished with dilute magenta.

I like the effect of the yellow showing through and the colours blending in the shadows and the darkest shadows blending of the three colours.  This was a quick pose, drawn from life.

Below you can see the covers which I designed for three interesting ebooks written by my father in law, H E L Mellersh.  They are now available on Kindle, ipad etc.  You can learn more at www.njeanius.uk
 
                                 

Nude of the week 27: Animation of a nude man standing up

 

Man Working. 1

This is a dark brown drawing of a man.  It is one of a series of five drawn approximately from the same angle. He stoops to the ground, picks up a stone, lifts it, stands, and places it high up.  We have put them together to make a nice little animation. All very quick  2 minute  sketches or so.

Click on the arrow below to watch the video.It's much better on full screen so click on the little square thing at the bottom right of the video.

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PS: The ebooks of Nick's father;s World War One Books are now published after ages of struggle.  Jeanie did the covers.  See below.  There's much  more at njeanius.uk

Nude of the week 26: Man sits and thinks - and a vicar with clothes on

Black and white chalk on brown pastel paper.  An old man sits and ponders. 

Below is a picture of vicar with clothes on some of which I made.

James is happy with his new colourful stole given to him at harvest festival.

 Here is a picture of me and our vicar James.  I had just given James the new stole that I made from silk.  It is made from the silk ends cut off before making saris. 

I cut the pieces and arranged them in pairs into their separate colours.  Then I saw which colours wanted to go together and put the dark ones at the bottom to give it weight and the lighter warm colours at the top.  For the small cape at the back I wove the orangey colours together and it is all backed with deep red silk.  The edges were secured with a zigzag machine stitch.

Nude a week 25: A series of action drawings

 

Nude a week 25: Jo highlighted with white pastel

This is a recent 30 minute ske3tch.  I like her sculptural shapes.  Jo was painted with soft black lines and brown pastel, highlighted in white pastel.

Nude a week 24: Guest artist - Georg Mayer-Marton

Two nude sketches by Grorg Mayer-Marton

I was studying at Liverpool art college in the mid 50's when Georg Mayer-Marton arrived as a lecturer, small, grey and Hungarian.

From him I learned mosaics. At first I was trying to make them all nice and flat. He taught us to angle the tessera so that the light catches them. After his death a mosaic font of his has been installed in the Catholic cathedral in Liverpool.

He was a great artist and his art was very inspiring to me. He also took me aside, after looking at my drawings and taught me how to make silver-point drawings. One evening he took about three of us students round the Wirral to see his church mosaics. We piled into his tiny car and went from church to church. A lovely trip.

I found his lectures very hard to follow with his soft voice, his Hungarian accent and his very long sentences. During one of his lectures I drew this sketch (a good likeness). I also have a photo of him with me and other students.. It was taken in the summer of 1958 outside the front of Liverpool Art College. Mayer-Marton died in 1960.

The pictures here are from Mayer-Marton's website http://www.mayer-marton.com/ It contains a lovely article about him by my fellow student Gordon Millar and is well worth looking at.

Above are two of Georg Mayer-Marton's nude drawings. I like the fluid lines.  Below is a photograph of him with his students two years before he died.  Lastly a drawing I did of him during one of his lectures

End of the pedagog course 1958, outside Liverpool Art College. Left to right,back row: Sandra Lord, Anne Mossop, 4 women I don't know, Joyce Park,another woman I don't know, Georg Mayer Marton, Myra Shillington, Alex Morrison. Front row left to right: Jeanette Huxtable (now Jeanie Mellersh), Edith Rubinstein, (now Mathur) Albert Robinson.

A sketch I drew of Mayer-Marton during one of his lectures

Nude a week 23: Which hat shall I wear?

 

Charcoal study of a model done in Grass Valley California