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These charcoal drawings are all A5 in size, were created quickly, with each piece taking between 10-20 minutes to complete. I worked from reference photographs, using the limited time and materials as a good way to respond instinctively to each image. I find working in charcoal particularly freeing when I experience artist’s block. Its immediacy encourages me to stop overthinking and focus instead on the fundamental elements of an image – form, shape, light and shadow. By stripping a subject back to its bare bones, charcoal allows me to explore what is essential within an image without getting caught up in unnecessary detail.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ab-designs.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ab-designs.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ab-designs.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ab-designs.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ab-designs.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ab-designs.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/ab-designs.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ab-designs.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ab-designs.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ab-designs.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}