Conte

These images are drawn by me with conte, it’s gritty and chalky but you can mould it with a tortilion or your finger to make it softer. You can get conte in just about any colour and even in conte pencils.

The old masters had sepia or burnt umber and it was usually a sketch only.

I like this medium it has a tone and softness about it, but the substance is gritty and not always easy to use. It’s well worth the effort to give this a go if you like art work.

#1 Granny Tresidder

This is my Granny, Iris Tresidder at Ellerslie races in the late 1940's before I was even thought of. She was with Mum and my Uncle Derek all dressed in the nines.

Granny Tresidder and my other Granny (Dad's Mother) both wore fox furs which was the fashion of those times.

Ellerslie races still goes, it is for galloping horses and steeplechase races. The trotters race at Alexander Raceway. Both race courses are very close, one is in Greenlane (Alexander) and the other in Remurea (Ellerslie). Well Remurea and Ellerslie are borderline territories in the Auckland region, of New Zealand.

Not allowed time is there to do everything I want.

Life class often begins with a very short time like 2 mins, twice, 5 mins twice, one 15 minute pose or 20 minute pose and the times depends on the Life class teacher. I don't think anyone did any teaching in this class. People just come and try to become good a drawing life.

Nude is done to improve the 3 dimensional understanding of the human figure be it male or female. Truth be, to draw people you need to understand basic facts of anatomy at all stages of life, all ages and all sizes.

Trouble with this Art Class there is no parking area anywhere you only get there by luck of a parking space.

It's a made up profile, not from a model. Here it is.

My thoughts, it's an image of a woman Her thoughts are her own.

I saw this image somewhere and it's one of the best choreography attempts of dance I've seen. So had to draw it with conte.

I was attending night classes at this time at ATI. Used to go there all the time to learn Graphic Design, life class and what ever else was going.

I did this a while ago and thought it wasn't up to snuff and closed it off in a book and saw it again in my files. Not bad, always art is about improving yourself and for some reason I kept it.

If I got paid for the paper I threw away with discarded art work I would be a millionaire.!

There was an art work with 3 women but the hair was overhead and seemed to look different. I did it differently in conte.

I made up these faces, so I used the idea but the hair wasn't windswept.

Done quickly but simply I try to make the person beautiful or strong. I don't like ugly and I am allowed to have an opinion.

I don't think that praising ugly has any bearing of a superior intelligence. A lot just like ugly either because they do what they are told and follow the guidelines or because they are bitter in life.