Scupture class

Hello!! Today I want to share with you this great new: this year I also took classes in sculpting natural clay! That was fantastic, it's a fantastic experience, I advise everyone to try this field of expression. First lessons were about drawing from life, trying to keep proportion with the object. We made the final bas relief from life, but we also made a study in charcoal in advance.

Charcoal, 297 x 420 mm

And the final work, after months of drying..

Dry clay, about 300 x 400 mm

The installation was a little different because we coundn't keep the objects in the same position throug time.

Still life

Here is a study I made recently during a collective drawing session. It is from life, in about three hours. I practiced measuring and chiaroscuro. I hope you enjoy. It's about 25x30 cm, pencil, charcoal pencil and white chalk on toned paper.

Arnovecchio Workshop wih Sandro Sacchetti (second Part)

Here we are at the second meeting in Arnovecchio for the drawing course. The weather was cloudy and almost rainy that day, but anyway we were able to finish the lesson. We drew from model in wood of mallard, male and female. They were still, so I had more time to refine the work. I used watercolor on a 25x35 (ca) Fabriano paper, and pencils in  my sketchbook for the awkward perspective of the female (about 5x5 cm).

The sketch in pencil

Final painting

And the female one:

From my POV it had more sense the positition of the tail as in the first B&W sketch. but finally it made more sense to modify a bit what I was seeing. This is not good, but hard not for me to do when drawing forsehortened parts. Maybe a solution is to firmly close an eye, and think in terms of form!

Arnovecchio Workshop wih Sandro Sacchetti (first Part)

Last Saturday I took part in a workshop held in a small natural area near my hause by the naturalistic artist Sandro Sacchetti. We didn't draw much from nature, the first part was about very general indication about drawing and the course was meant for very beginners. But anyway the weather was fine and I had pleasure sharing time, attention and passion with other people. These are the "products"

Pencil copy of a watercolour of Federico Gemma: two little hoot owl

Color pencil and watercolor pencil sketch of a little plum

Next week there will be the second part!

Color study in Art Rage

Hello!! I want to share a little color study I made yesterday. These are useful exercises, at least I hope. Finally it took more than an hour to do this albeit I picked color too much.. but I hope that this can train my eye (and relax me a bit). The drawing is not much important as the right color picking, I admit it's a bit difficult for me you have to become familiar with the color system picker of Art Rage, and the luminescence of the display can be deceitful without experience. Anyway with practice it's more confortable than doing this kind of exercise in traditional medium, even if it would be more satisfying (and time consuming). I must confess that for now I have used only regular oil brush without caring about all the features and facets of the program.

Here you can find the original.

Oil Pastel sketches

Hi folks!! Today I'm going to share some oil pastel sketches I made during the last months. They are all from the country near my home (that's new!!)

In the first one I also mixed some watercolors pencils:

Figure Drawing at Florence Art Accademy

Hallo girls and guys!! Here are some drawings from the last months from the thursday free session of figure drawings at the Florence Art Academy.

3/3/2016 (couple of hours, charcoal on paper)

I'm quite satisfied with this. Maybe the head is slightly smaller then it was in reality. Also the left profile of the girls body could be a bit softer like the one of the arm. But I tried a bit too much to define form also to be sure that I understand them.

Sketches!!

Here they are some recent sketches. I think they are all from 2016.

This drawings are from the country near my home. The bird you can see in the second picture is a wild silent duck

Alternative world studies

Hello people!! I want to share this week something different. It's an old job I made for the entertainment illustration course. We had to develop some charcters and world features according to a narrative path. It was spring 2013.

I developed a couple of races, male and female, a couple of beasts and some sketches of the enviroment. I used pencil, pen and three copic marker for the tones.

Figure Drawing (2015)

Here they are a couple of drawings from the free session at the Florence Art Academy. It's been almost an year since I made them, but now they find a place on the web..
The lady:

Watercolur Sketches

Hello!! This day I want to share some watercolours I've done during the last months. Some of them come from last summer, so it's almost an year... But anyway, the time has come for them to be on this blog. They are the product of my spare time of the weekend, often some strolls nearby my hometown. Some photos are a bit altered by the digital filters. Feel free to ask if you are interested in some of this watercolour!! They are made on Fabriano Artistico 12.5x18 cm.

Life drawing

During the last session at the Florence Art Academy, I decided to go digital, mainly because it was easier for me to carry only the tablet. But anyway, you have to practice something if you want to get some juice...

Here is the first drawing (03/02) with the major steps divided per layers:

Life drawing December 2015 /January 2016

Hello, a couple of drawings I made at Florence art academy during the last months.

Scketchcrawl Florence 23/01/2016

Hallo!! Last Saturday was the international sketchcrawl. I joined the group in Florence. We spent the morning sketching at the Marini Museum in Florence. That place was wanderful, an old church transformed into a museum. Also the artworks were great with lots of statues and paintings from this modern artist

Summer Watercolour

Sorry, it's almost a month without publishing.. and I'm not going to share some recent drawing.. Here are two watercolurs I made this summer. They can be useful as a lesson to watercolor. It was a late afternoon in July; I started this one...