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Recently I have had an obsession with using watercolour for figure drawing. This burst of colour was somewhat unexpected from my usual medium of the graphite pencil but not an unwelcome one. The vibrant colour and fluidity of these recent drawings contrast with the sharpness of my previous grey studies.
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I found it challenging to use this medium in the life room. I had grown used to going at my own pace at home with online resources making it difficult to finish my drawings in the five-minute period of the short pose. With the longer poses I was left with too much time on my hands!
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Due to COVID-19 I was only getting a quarter of the time that I would normally get in the class, the remaining hours being self-directed. I ended up making the difficult decision to drop my Life Drawing module. With my painting module being self-directed and all my written work I have, I couldn’t motivate myself to produce live drawings when I couldn’t go to class.
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Dottie-may Aston 