By the way I hope you like my new redesigned website. It was subtle changes of color background and pictures more bigger... I like to change things around from time to time so people don't get bored or I don't  get too comfortable with my old ways.

My latest drawings  is a  Male nude and he  is a great model as he makes very interesting and exciting poses..shame that sometimes I can not draw his entire body in the quick poses as I get too concentrate in the head or in the colors or whatever else about the drawing I am doing that I miss out in drawing the whole body in the quick poses ( my quick poses are posted in my Flickr account  http://www.flickr.com/photos/under_the_willow_tree/ ) having said that I also  realized that I went from drawing very small poses on the paper ( when I first started drawing nude seven years ago) to drawing my poses so big that they can not fit in the whole paper. I find it difficult to draw small again so I may need a big paper..I wonder why this has happened..
So bellow are 2 drawings from  one hour pose each.

Colour nudes - Oct/2012

Bellow are a few drawings from the last 2 weeks of my drawing group...I have decided to work on my colours this term and hope I am improving...

Estes sao alguns desenhos das 2 ultimas semanas do grupo de desenho...eu decidi praticar no meu uso de cores com o Pastel neste semestre e espero estar melhorando...

I am planning to post a few portraits and some more collage later on in the week and month.
I will start with this one I did looking at myself in the mirror. I find it a bit hard doing my portrait in this way because I have glasses on and was difficult to see the light and shades in some places because I have the glasses on it would be different if I was doing it from my photograph. So here we go...

Eu estou planejando colocar aqui no meu blog alguns retratos e colages que espero fazer na proxima semana e durante o mes.  Vou comecar com esta abaixo que eu fiz me olhando no espelho. Eu achei um pouco dificil porque estava usando oculos e nao conseguia ver direito as sombras e as luzes no meu rosto na area onde o oculos estava. Claro teria sido mais facil se tivesse feito atravez de uma fotografia, mas gostei de tentar esta tequinica.. Aqui vai...

I made this Pastel painting last Monday. The paper has a nice and soft texture like handmade. I forgot the name but I will try and remember and post here later on.

Eu fiz esta pintura com Pastel na segunda passada. O papel tem uma textura macia, tipo feito a mao. Eu nao me lembro o nome do papel agora, mas assim que me lembrar colocatrei o nome aqui.

 I started my Nude drawing group again which I have been away from over a year. It was nice to come back and see majority of familiar faces in there. Bellow are some of my work I did last Monday..

Eu comecei o meu grupo de desenho novamente o qual eu estive ausente por mais de um ano. Foi bom voltar e reconhecer a maioria das pessoas ali. Abaixo alguns dos trabalhos que eu fiz na segunda...

charcoal and pastel on Ingres paper

I didn't have time to finish her, we had only an hour for the long pose..I was so tangled up in trying to get the head right..it was a bit of challenge as her chin was kind of short forwards. I started the drawing from her left breast, that was my starting point and from there I tried to measure everything up.

Eu nao tive tempo de terminar o desenho acima, pois tivemos apenas uma hora para desenha-la..eu fiquei meio enrroscada tentando desenhar a cabeca dela, pois o queixo estava numa posicao deificil no meu ponto de vista...eu comecei a desenhar a partir do seio esquerdo, este foi o meu ponto de partida e a partir dali eu fiz as outras medidas.

these are my 3 short poses ones using charcoal and pastel on sugar paper..
esses foram as minhas 3 poses rapidas ..usando carvao e papel acucar? nao sei se essa seria a traducao correta para o Portugues.

Dreaming feathers

 

Acrylic on paper board

a beautiful feather found in the streets of London I was wondering what to do with the feather...

uma pena bonita achada em uma rua de Londres..eu estava pensando o que fazer com ela...

a empty board and a feather

uma pena e uma superficie vazia

I have this old drawing that I have been staring at and not sure how I could develop it 

Eu tinha esse desenho antigo que ficava as vezes a olhar e nao saber com certeza como desenvolve-lo

 according to Blue Wizard, a healer friend of mine, feathers are a link to the living world ...and they can also be used for healing..I like the symbolism of that ...and I think this dreamy lady looks so peaceful fluctuating amongst them..

De acordo com o Mago Azul, um amigo meu que e esoterico, me explicou que a pena pode ser usada em rituais e tambem e um elo entre os dois mundos..eu achei interessante este simbolismo que ele me falou..tambem achei que essa modelo parece estar num mundo de sonhos e em harmonia flutuando entre essas penas...

Catherine

Acrylic on plywood

This is my another attempt to do a portrait this time of my youngster. It was a hard one to do because I have this little one telling me all the time what I have missed and what I should have done better which was quite helpful and to the point to be honest.