music sketches

These four sketches were drawn during a performance of The Amphion Consort at the National Portrait Gallery, performing music from the British Renaissance Era. I had a bit of a problem: the music was so overwhelming and touching that I could scarcely set these emotions into paper! 

However, I managed to capt their captivating body and facial expressions in just four drawing. I wish I was less involved with the music. How could ? 

Portrait of Lee - life pencil drawing on paper

National Portrait Gallery in London, Friday drop-in session on 23-08-2013. 

This a portrait of Lee. She was also drawing me, so somehow we're holding a silent eyes contact conversation by portraying one another at the sometime. I wanted the upper and lower part of the drawing to reinforce this Chinese lady, her gazing, her concentration, her age and wisdom perhaps and the lightness of her blouse. I created a contrasting but balanced composition through a band of black on the top and white background, the blouse at the bottom of the image. In the end I achieved a very bold composition.

Life ink drawing of my friend Peter

Casual portrait of my friend Peter. I used liberal approach to cross-hatching and parallel-hatching technique.

Life drawing - Study of a Nude with floating fig leaves

A nude study executed when attending free Life Drawing for London Art Students (drop-in) at the Prince Drawing School in Shoreditch http://www.princesdrawingschool.org/ on the first Thursday of the month, last June or July. I just can't remember. The composition was enhanced with a bit of imagination by adding large figs leaves, which were part of the model props setup, by making them floating around the well endowed model like in a Chagall painting. Oh the ballerina light pink shoes on the side :)