http://nicholsoncartoons.com.au Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:03:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://nicholsoncartoons.com.au/julia-gillard-maquettes-by-david-geraghty-with-nicholson-ballarat-pm-avenue.html#comment-512 Peter Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:03:46 +0000 http://nicholsoncartoons.com.au/?p=11183#comment-512 David Geraghty took this photo of me with four maquettes of Julia Gillard, for a story in The Australian. For me the maquettes are like pencil sketches in a notebook. I don't try to finish them, but just to take them far enough to learn what is right or wrong about that way of depicting that face. I just put them aside and start another one. If i corrected it, I might obliterate something that later on I would find useful. When I am confident I will start the full size head, and hopefully will be able to work freely and intuitively, largely from memory, and produce a final version that captures the best of all the maquettes. Peter Nicholson David Geraghty took this photo of me with four maquettes of Julia Gillard, for a story in The Australian. For me the maquettes are like pencil sketches in a notebook. I don’t try to finish them, but just to take them far enough to learn what is right or wrong about that way of depicting that face. I just put them aside and start another one. If i corrected it, I might obliterate something that later on I would find useful. When I am confident I will start the full size head, and hopefully will be able to work freely and intuitively, largely from memory, and produce a final version that captures the best of all the maquettes. Peter Nicholson

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]]> http://nicholsoncartoons.com.au/julia-portrait-ballarat-unfinished-maquette-4.html#comment-465 Peter Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:22:28 +0000 http://nicholsoncartoons.com.au/?p=11121#comment-465 When I do a portrait bust (this one is for the Ballarat Prime Ministers Avenue) I start off my making several small, quick maquettes. When they get to a certain stage I just abandon them mistakes and all and get on with another one. The result is eventually I can do the final large head working quickly and freely almost entirely from memory. This little one is a half body, it's quite small, just a useful excercise Peter Nicholson When I do a portrait bust (this one is for the Ballarat Prime Ministers Avenue) I start off my making several small, quick maquettes. When they get to a certain stage I just abandon them mistakes and all and get on with another one. The result is eventually I can do the final large head working quickly and freely almost entirely from memory. This little one is a half body, it’s quite small, just a useful excercise Peter Nicholson

]]> http://nicholsoncartoons.com.au/julia-portrait-bust-ballarat-unfinished-maquette-3.html#comment-464 Peter Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:20:11 +0000 http://nicholsoncartoons.com.au/?p=11118#comment-464 When I do a portrait bust (this one is for the Ballarat Prime Ministers Avenue) I start off my making several small, quick maquettes. When they get to a certain stage I just abandon them mistakes and all and get on with another one. The result is eventually I can do the final large head working quickly and freely almost entirely from memory. When I do a portrait bust (this one is for the Ballarat Prime Ministers Avenue) I start off my making several small, quick maquettes. When they get to a certain stage I just abandon them mistakes and all and get on with another one. The result is eventually I can do the final large head working quickly and freely almost entirely from memory.

]]> http://nicholsoncartoons.com.au/julia-portrait-ballarat-unfinished-maquette-2.html#comment-463 Peter Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:18:21 +0000 http://nicholsoncartoons.com.au/?p=11114#comment-463 When I do a portrait bust (this one is for the Ballarat Prime Ministers Avenue) I start off my making several small, quick maquettes. When they get to a certain stage I just abandon them mistakes and all and get on with another one. The result is eventually I can do the final large head working quickly and freely almost entirely from memory. When I do a portrait bust (this one is for the Ballarat Prime Ministers Avenue) I start off my making several small, quick maquettes. When they get to a certain stage I just abandon them mistakes and all and get on with another one. The result is eventually I can do the final large head working quickly and freely almost entirely from memory.

]]> http://nicholsoncartoons.com.au/julia-ballarat-avenue-unfinished-maquette-1.html#comment-462 Peter Wed, 28 Mar 2012 02:16:13 +0000 http://nicholsoncartoons.com.au/?p=11111#comment-462 When I do a portrait bust (this one is for the Ballarat Prime Ministers Avenue) I start off my making several small, quick maquettes. When they get to a certain stage I just abandon them mistakes and all and get on with another one. The result is eventually I can do the final large head working quickly and freely almost entirely from memory. Peter Nicholson When I do a portrait bust (this one is for the Ballarat Prime Ministers Avenue) I start off my making several small, quick maquettes. When they get to a certain stage I just abandon them mistakes and all and get on with another one. The result is eventually I can do the final large head working quickly and freely almost entirely from memory. Peter Nicholson

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