And here they are together: See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold and Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer. I couldn't decide whether to have...
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Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer
And here's the other half of the diptych. The drawings on the back are Hear The Wind and Smell The Reindeer. This one was painted in parallel...
See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold
And here we are at stage 2 of the big project. After I Am The Eye In The Sky was such a big success almost five years ago on a glass fridge shelf...
Smell The Reindeer
And finally we have the fifth sense: smell. With room for a second drawing on my third sheet of paper, I ended up having two attempts at the...
See The Winter
Day four of the big September project and it's been a fast one. This is a charcoal drawing of my right eye. I expected the eye to be the most...
Feel The Cold
Here's the third of my senses. It's my hand, signifying touch. Like all the other senses, this is in charcoal. Most of it is with charcoal...
Taste The Snow
Next up in the five senses is taste. Once again, this is in charcoal, almost entirely with the pencils but with a likely bit of XL block in...
Hear The Wind
September's starting off with a big project that will take at least a week to complete, maybe two. It's going to start with five charcoal drawings...
BethR In Charcoal
Time to have another go at a charcoal figure and to put Anthony Ryder's lessons to use. They worked last weekend, so why not keep going? Today's...
AnaIv In Charcoal
After reading Anthony Ryder's book, I was keen to put some of his ideas into practice as soon as possible, so I've been doing some figure drawing...
The Other Travellers Came Walking Down The Track
<Spoiler alert: stinker incoming> After reading Robert Dutton's book, I was in the mood for a charcoal painting. Not just any charcoal...
Paul Auster
I started this one last night and finished it this morning. It's unusual for me to spread something over two days. It's because I started late...
The Man Who Found Out
After fixing a load of charcoal paintings the other day, I was in the mood for some charcoal action but took the day off yesterday to have another...
Big Sam In Charcoal
This is one I've been planning for a while. Ever since I read the Nathan Fowkes book, I've been meaning to do a charcoal portrait. And as this...
The Shard
It feels as if the big year end winddown has started. This will be my final painting of the year but probably not my final post. It's based on a...
DanM
Since reading the Douglas Graves book, I've been intending to try out some figure drawing with the charcoal. I got around to it today with...
Donald Trump
I took a break from the planets today. A charcoal painting is long overdue and I thought I'd have a go at a charcoal portrait for the first time....
The Old Forge, Inverie
This, or at least the building on the far left, is The Old Forge, a pub in the village of Inverie on the Knoydart Peninsula. It was in the news...
View From Ardtornish Castle
An old mate from Uni, Howard, was recently on holiday in the Scottish Highlands and Islands and posted loads of photos on Facebook. The one on...
Queendown Warren Car Park
So here's my first ever charcoal painting. It's of the entrance to a car park in Queendown Warren, somewhere between Hartlip and Medway Services....