Tastertainment May 2013

I think the group brought their A game today. Lots of memorable performances and I did my thing near the front. I'm starting to get the hang of skin tones, but they a still very difficult with the watercolour pencils.

I've left one of the pictures unpainted with watercolour.

Oh, and come and find me on twitter @rorysketch I'll start publishing my updates there.

Secret Dancer

This is what I've been working on lately. It's a dancer which is based on a painting taken from the Internet plus a photo of my niece in a similar pose. It was never intended to be a direct copy, in any case I think that the original was painted with some kind of permanent rose which isn't part of my collection of paints.

I started with a practice sketch which was some kind of combination of the 2 with some errors along the way, which probably helped later on.

The main painting is fairly small, roughly 10 inches by 10 inches and the results a pleasing with lots of borrowing of blues and reds/oranges in the skin tones.

I listened to this song whilst painting it a few times and I think it links quite well to the painting as my neice looks similar (long hair basically) and plays the piano very well. See below for the links:-

http://open.spotify.com/track/4kjiVK4IZWYADcPQR8kzsh

http://youtu.be/Z2gUYEhtBKg

Oh, and come and find me on twitter @rorysketch I'll start publishing my updates there.

Subrosa5

Was invited out to band practice with a friends band Subrosa5.  Had a great time, sketching the guys and haven't been in a studio like this before - carpeted walls, the lot.  My ears are still ringing from the last 2 songs!

Please have a listen to them - I can personally recommend 'Malevolence'.

http://www.last.fm/music/Subrosa5

or if you're feeling generous download here...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Hellfire-Raves/dp/B0032IQ8CG/ref=dm_cd_album_lnk

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/subrosa5/id338368831

Dancer

This is a prep sketch for a painting of a dancer I'm working on. It's served it's purpose as the oil sketch fell a little odd and this is a useful guide for correcting it.