Burnt stick charcoal
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I have been struggling with line and tone in my portraits with everything feeling very drawn and too dark. I tried using some burnt stick charcoal instead of my usual compressed charcoal. In fact I used both and my charcoal pencil, feels like a step forward, thanks to Minnie Ashley for her wonderful source picture
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Jeff Coles
Self-taught photographer from wet room to the digital age, in 2014 i put my camera down and started to paint to get back to an analogue past time. I like the strange and unusual and have now tried Acrylics, oils, water colour, charcoal, pencils pens, mono printing, lino cuts etc., all with…
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