Life class.

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Touch of Leonardo here Michael! I know fore- shortening is so hard to get right, I think you've done it.

Posted by Marjorie Firth on Sun 27 Sep 09:51:52

Thank you, Marjorie.

Posted by Alan Ridley on Sun 27 Sep 10:10:21

Oh yes That's just what I thought, like Marjorie, very Leonardo Alan. Beautiful shading.

Posted by Carole Swingler on Sun 27 Sep 10:22:28

Very well drawn, Alan.

Posted by Ruth Dolan on Sun 27 Sep 10:27:24

Very well drawn, I agree with Marjorie and Carole.

Posted by Cesare Romano on Sun 27 Sep 10:29:45

I'm working on some life drawings at the moment and this is a superb study Alan, well done, lovely pencil work, great to see this standard.

Posted by Alan Bickley on Sun 27 Sep 10:39:54

Carole, Ruth, Cesare and Alan, thank you very much for your kind comments.

Posted by Alan Ridley on Sun 27 Sep 17:10:39

A lovely bit of drawing Alan - it is difficult to make hands look natural, but you have certainly achieved it.

Posted by Julie Bosley on Sun 27 Sep 17:13:41

Julie, thank you—I appreciate your comment.

Posted by Alan Ridley on Sun 27 Sep 22:23:22

Superb sketch - hands are so difficult but you have drawn them so very well

Posted by lynne whitfield on Mon 28 Sep 10:26:21

Lynne, thank you very much.

Posted by Alan Ridley on Mon 28 Sep 10:33:17

Excellent piece, with superb tonal work.

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Mon 28 Sep 15:24:57

Thank you for your generous comment, Seok.

Posted by Alan Ridley on Mon 28 Sep 15:58:39

Hang on Studio Wall

27/09/2015

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Carbon pencil and chalk on tinted paper 60x42 cm.

About the Artist

Alan Ridley

Previously a neurologist at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, I resumed my interest in drawing the human figure and painting the figure in watercolour when my wife and I retired to Exeter in 1997. I work from life class models and use watercolour in a loose impressionist way. The drawing or…

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