by Drawing Pad | 22 March, 2006 | Blog, Drawing
I don’t often get a chance to draw much in the weekly life class I run at school, but this week student numbers were small so I was able to do these. I was rather pleased with them at the time – mostly because I so enjoyed doing them – even at the...
by Drawing Pad | 28 February, 2006 | Blog, Painting
Twenty five years ago as a student I painted myself in my bedsit (left). This year I was invited to donate a portrait to the National Portrait Gallery’s Gala mystery portrait postcard exhibition. So I painted another picture (right). They make an...
by Drawing Pad | 12 December, 2005 | Blog, Drawing, graphics, Sketchbooks
I have been working on various things at the moment including the Pericles design, a commemorative mug and a self portrait.
by Drawing Pad | 16 October, 2005 | Blog, Painting
I completed these 4 small pictures last week. They are based on the memory of particular places, weather and light conditions. Looking at them together (above) it’s interesting to note formal qualities that are similar; the high horizon, the composition that...
by Drawing Pad | 29 August, 2005 | Art, Blog, Drawing, Painting, Sketchbooks, Travel
We got away in mid August for 3 days to a small place near Dittisham in Devon. We were there last 13 years ago. I was able to do some quick sketchbook work in the wooded valley where we stayed, on the beach and one quick drawing in the bustling town of Dartmouth....