The Boys - large charcoal drawing

Inspired recently by Caravaggio, I took a photo on a whim of my brother and father in a darkened room and the flash illuminated the figures in a way which closely mimics the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio (although obviously nowhere near as good.) I decided to make a monochrome drawing, adding paper as I needed.

Graphite and charcoal on paper, approx 115cm x 100cm

Corridor8 art reviews

Seeing as I am interested in pursuing a career in art critiquing for a magazine or online, I got involved in an art platform called Corridor8 which focuses on visual arts and writing in the north of England, which is perfect since I live and study in Newcastle!
Here are links to two reviews I have written so far this year.

http://corridor8.co.uk/article/newcastle-gateshead-hatton-gallery-pavilion-toby-paterson/

http://corridor8.co.uk/article/bloomberg-new-contemporaries-2017/

summer sketchbook

I thought I would share some of my summer sketchbook work which I am using for this years project, where I will be looking at the human figure, portraiture, and people in places.

(left) collage and biro drawing, A4 (right) photograph, pencil and oil pastel drawing A4

(left) pencil and coloured pencil drawing A4 (right) finaliser drawing with sandwich bag collage, A4

pencil and coloured pencil drawings, all A4

(left) newspaper and biro drawing A4 (right) coloured pencil drawing A4

(left) fine liner drawing A5 (right) pencil and coloured pencil drawing A5

(left) David Hockney postcards (right) pencil drawings A4

(left) biro and chalk pastel drawing A4 (right) coloured pencil and oil pastel drawings A4

after Matisse, pencil, pastel and biro doodles, collage. Both A4

graphite and highlighter sketch, A5

(left) collage A4 (right) graphite sketch A4

(left) fine liner sketch A5 (right) pencil sketch A5

both pencil drawings A4

(left) pencil sketches A4 (right) charcoal and coloured pencil drawing A4

pencil life sketches both A5