phil garret award

here is todays drawing, its a very terry drawing using line and coloured pencils



Is here incase theres a teenager on myspace who worrys about seeing a naked man.

Anyway i entitled this blog the phil garret award as old terry was going on about this drawing phils done and he said he was jellous of it,(must be somthing) but phil is in sweden at the moment so it has to wait but it seems the time hes been putting in with the royal collage of surgeons is paying dividends.

Anyway that was the banter is my drawing good enough for the phil garret award, terry wasnt amused with me. He didnt have a good day but kurt did hes lost the plot a little with the life drawing since coming back from italy i think as he was putting the two of us to shame regurly before he left and not doing the constant drawing for a month has given us some breathing room.

anyway ill do more gossiping in myspace ill just say here that i had a good angle and theres some exelent natural shapes in what i got .

last things i did

Well back to the internet after a week off doing family things. Here are the drawings i did before my life got very busy.

This was a new model and was her first time, she was a little nervous but kept still which was exelent. I only spent 2 hours on it as i had to invidulate at the red wire show but terry said it was good except for 2 toes and the left hand.



Just a fellows back ,hes an exelent model and is a keen runner so he has a good figure.



This was a five minute sketch i did three which i loved and i think the work on the bus helps me there with short time i wonder why though with more time there not better again ,anyway i liked this pose has a lovly movement to it.





those are the other 2 five minute ones.



This was 40 minutes and it tickeled me a little when terry saw it and had not see the model .He said id been quite kind to the fellow but thats just the way it was. The head is terrable and does not sit correctly on the body so i supose that its good that theres a bit of a dissraction. I didnt get to have a second go at him as the tate called and i had to cover for someone who was ill. Shame realy.

Was just looking at it again and admiring the legs and feet (isnt it great when you admire your self only a leo can do that with integrity). The hand realy lets it down though ,is a real shame that with those legs.

Myspace ???

Myspace is not letting me in so the blog is here.

Am worried about the hair in my dentists picture will send him a text and sort it out i think. On the bus this morning there was a review of our exhibition in the metro ,I didnt get a mention which was a bit of a dissapointment butmaybe it will help with getting people to visit .Had a slightly unproffesional moment when the cafe staff nxt door all went off to wales not telling anyone and we could not get the keys anymore. Wasnt open for a day but a spare set have been aquired .

Have been getting a lot of work in the tate and am tired was difficult to get up this morning didnt get out of bed until 7. AM wondering about my career again is strange that some people are so keen and others have absolutly no intrest.

Told John who was over from china about jenny saville chris offil and anne magill. I kind of like the idea that me saying somthing here in a pub might have an impact in china and a painter i admire will be showen there .But thats all a bit of a dream , still would be good maybe i could ask for a catolog. (i dont get them here at tate like the other staff as i dont have a contract).
Wonder how the fortune cards are getting on, had a difficult member of the public yesterday who staired alot and told me about snow lepoards. It quite upset me actualy as him insisting this painting of snow lepoards was amazing didnt realy make much sence to me as i couldnt see it and didnt know it. But still he told me that it was realy propper painting for 12 minutes, make you glad that you earn just above the minumum wage.

nudes

Heres what i did on saturday



Am quite pleased there are flaws in it but its a great improvement on what ive been doing for the past few months. This new way of doing toes is better was tricky to get and its not all there yet but will show this to old terry on monday and see what he says.



Heres tuesdays without the edit. Was very pleased with the feet on this one.

intresting

well worth a look