Total Art Soul - for artists

A blog I created in the Spring which I thought I would share here (as it's started again!)   It's Sunday. It's 10 o'clock. I'm sitting at the kitche...

Continuing from my previous blog about my first trip to London. Well the day arrived. My second journey into London within a week, this time for the p...

I'm a bit claustrophobic you see. I don't like crowds, noise, pollution, concrete jungles. I love the slow pace of life that East Suffolk offers. Fres...

It's Sunday. It's 10 o'clock. I'm sitting at the kitchen table with a tea and the local paper. The weather is still a bit on the cold side but there i...

Well, here she is completed. I'm not sure it's one of my best portraits, I'm much more comfortable working on more craggy and weather beaten features,...

Cracking on, I've worked on the clothing mostly using the tortillon with 'B' graphite dust, before bringing the hair down on that side.  &nb...

Today was about getting as near completion on the face as possible. In the past I've avoided as much as possible having an open mouthed smile in my po...

Well, I didn't get a huge amount done today. I got the second eye almost done, working in exactly the same way as the first. It's SOOO important to ge...

So here is the end of today's work. As you can see I've done a bit more on the hat and moved down onto the face.  I'm more comfortable working on...

 That's a working title by the way.....I don't normally upload images and works in progress until the picture is completed, just in case it ends ...