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If you’re wondering why I picked orange it’s because they are complimentary colours. One makes the other stand out.
Think blue sea and orange RNLI boat. It’s painted orange for a reason.
Artwork Auction
Original charcoal drawing of cricket legend Chris Gayle.
'Gayle Force' drawn in charcoal on thick watercolour paper 20" x 15"
Starting bid £50, 7 days
Link to bid: https://t.co/uj8HLyBLvp
A little bit more progress.
Can you tell who’s involved in this tackle yet?
I wasn’t sure about just the charcoal so decided to back it up with some pastels.
I’m pausing there for tonight. I don’t know if I like it or not. I get angsty when I don’t stick to my initial plans.
You can over paint a subject, think I've done enough of Joe Root now, he's good to go.
I have a new scanner which I'm delighted with, its shown the charcoal off as natural as I think it can be...
'Here'
(or when you're stuck in lockdown with every bit of bad news flying around the country & no test cricket to watch).
I've been digitally manipulating my painting to see if I can produce a set of limited edition prints from it.
Keeping Joe sharp I've gradually worked on ghosting out the background. Thoughts?
Finished.
Bit of a change scribbling with conte pastels, may try them with a cricket drawing tomorrow.
Seeing all the lovely egrets in Sri Lanka. Here’s a drawing I did a while ago of an egret. He’s hanging in my living room.