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Blog Archive 2005 – 2015
Drawing from the audience
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Four on the road drawings
I seem to be drawing from coaches a lot recently. I enjoy following an edge as I draw even if that edge (of a distant horizon, or the shape of some trees) is changing; I just draw the part of the edge at that moment. I also use what I called connected drawing, where I…
Cats and Coffee
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Ashmolean Object Drawings
Drawings made on a visit to the Ashmolean. I am always inspired by the drawings on the artefact site. Click images for more info
Bus Journey
There's other bus drawings in my sketchbooks eg: Shadows and Shapes, Church and Bus, Two on a bus.
Encounter Again
I submitted and had this wood cut print – renamed Encounter – accepted for the Mull It Over Exhibition in Brighton
New Year – New Portrait
I blogged about two other self-portraits in an earlier post This one is only 10cm high, made in my Seawhite A6 landscape sketchbook using watercolour with a pentel brush pen and a Uni Posca marker for the white. Additional black line made with a 0.2 Pilot technical…
Hanging around
Waiting in line at bus stop. Seemed pretty unpromising but it was a longish wait and I rather like the reflection I drew. Later on had a coffee and was able to wash this in quickly. Click images to see large version
Brushpen drawing
Two recent pages using brush pens. I really like how the brush forces one to choose simple shapes; to abstract what one see. Click images to see larger versions
Berlin: selected drawing
I filled 40 pages of a new (Arborita) A6 landscape sketchbook while in Berlin with Sixth formers from school. Drawing people as we travelled on U-Bahn and bus, art we saw in the galleries and small observations of places seen. Here's a selection.