anita murphy

Steadily plodding away at this. I can see myself tweaking it forever and a day. Strange how you think something is a good photo for drawing only to discover its absolutely abysmal! The sketching is definitely becoming addictive. You can find me roaming the halls at work with sketchbook clutched tightly and on breaks snatching…

A little bit further with this. Its beginning to appear out of the page which is something that always amazes me. It reminds a little of doing photography and when you slip the exposed paper into the developing fluid and then like magic the image starts to appear. First soft greys and then the tonal…

Sketches from this week. I’m finding sketching in small format quite hard. Instinct for sketching is to be loose and this definitely isn’t. Thinking of working in pen next week – something about ink is freeing in some way – if you make a mistake you can’t do anything about it. I’ve ordered watercolour moleskines…

“I’m not an artist – I’m a phony I have nothing worth saying I’m not sure what I am doing Other people are better than I am I’m only a [student/physicist/mother/whatever] I’ve never had a real exhibit No one likes my work No one understands my work I’m no good” “The first few brushstrokes to…

Struggling with a still life, but at least I have it now on the canvas and ready to paint at the weekend. Evenings I’m doin this portrait – the last of my Marines. Really not happy with the eye and might have to redo that Trying to be more focused. Robin is keeping on the…

Been a long time since I posted here. I’m thinking of moving my blog back here from Yahoo ( http://360.yahoo.com/amartstudio )

Started a graphite portrait today. This is for a portrait swap I am doing with a Brazilian artist. She is doing me and I am doing her. We met on WetCanvas about 6 months ago and both signed up for this project – I feel incredibly lucky to have drawn her as my partner, knowing…

Think this done but for a little tweaking. I’ve decided to do this in acrylics too just to get some practice at portrait painting.

Spilled WaterGraphite on Paper First post to new blog!