life (model) drawing

This year, I'm trying to be a bit more creative. Two things are certainly on the cards - life drawing and painting. I've been to three life/model drawing sessions now. The first session was a hen's event and featured a very young model, the second session featured a trapeze artist, and the third was true life drawing with a classically curvy and dreamy model. It's been a steep learning curve and I was exhausted by the end of today's session. Drawing is hard work.

Below is a snapshot of my progress.

Scribble dump + Shirt52 week 2

Distant Love

Although not visual, I've translated a Trinh Cong Son song.

Distant Love (Tình Xa)

What days and months have gone by whilst I've sat still
What love has gone away whilst I've remained here
Love after love has left me like little streams
O little streams, the promises were the rains

As my footsteps head home, late at night I survey the streets of
an abandoned city, as once, over an affair
How would you know that life is so sad
Sometimes I hear myself

Listening to bleak waves lap against a frozen life
To my soul: wind, sand, transient things drift back

Sometimes, on the roof of our love, I hear raindrops
Howling love, silent love
Sorrow howling after sorrow, beside the deep ravine

Tomorrow morning, what's there to see
Oh I'll still have my friends
What drink won't still burn, whilst I'm still intoxicated by you
Since the day our love became like a heavy-headed highland forest
O steadily falling sad sounds, I realise my life is already mossed over.

Trinh Cong Son
1966-1967

Koko Black Drawing Competition - Night of the Spirits

Finally, i'm done.




It's been a lot of hard but satisfying work. It's not perfect, but it's pretty close to the vision I wanted to create.

Koko Black Competition - Almost There

This is almost there. I'm not sure what to call it though - Festival of the Spirits? Night of the Spirits?

Shirt52 project - week 1

Inspired by Leanne's project 365 (one photo a day for a whole year) - Shirt52 - pop art T-shirt designs, one a week. Untitled, so far.

Emancipation - Koko Black

Koko Black art comp entry - pretty close to finished. It's called Emancipation.