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Category Archives: Art
The Grey Sketchbook.
After a cardboard square sketchbook, here’s the new grey, A3 sugar-paper one. Edward with umbrella, pencil and markers. Made when I felt absolutely terrible. It was such a nice composition that I had to scrawl it down. From top left. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, drawing, figurative art, life drawing, Sketches
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Grey Sketchbook: The Fabrick, or Ashover Rock.
I went up North for a holiday and made this landscape in the Grey A3 Sketchbook.This majestic rock is pronounced ‘The Feybrick’ btw. The rocks around the hill were used as the fabric of the local church, hence the name.The … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Ashover, Derbyshire art, Fabrick, Landscapeart, lifepainting, sketchbook
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Art Classes are happening at my house.
So due to obvious reasons, art evening classes have been postponed. Now that I’m allowed to have some (well spaced) friends about, we’ve got together to paint and draw in my top floor studio. All very pleasant, with records played … Continue reading
Brown sketchbook. The last few pages…
Now, what new sketchbook do I get? Top row: By the Thames making art with Sarah Middle row: Faces and flowersBottom row: Edward and me working through books and legends, Karaoke night More abstract works. The white is heavily textured … Continue reading
The book of the exhibition
The first look through a book you’ve designed is a special time. A mixture of trepidation ‘is there any mistakes in the printing, design or copy?’ and the joy of having a physical example of your work. Here’s a film … Continue reading
A virtual poster for a virtual exhibition…
Here is the link to my virtual exhibition https://trevor-mill.com/verve-humanity-exhibition/ Have a wander round and say how you know the artist personally. Stare intently and mutter about the brushwork while stroking your chin.Buy a pretend postcard in the pretend shop.
Flower drawings in ink markers.
Peonies v2I’m using markers for the first time in my life. At one point I had to do some marker visualising (drawing scenes or images before the photoshoot), something that was fun but a bit hit and miss as after … Continue reading
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Tagged drawning, flower art, peonies, still life, touch five markers
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Flower paintings and drawings.
Flowers, lemon and grapes. Acrylic and pencils on watercolour paper. A very busy composition with a nice mesh of textures and colours. It is supposed to look serious and not frivolous. Flower painting is not something that interests many modern … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, flower painting, Painting, pencil
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Brown Sketchbook. People and poppies.
All these sketches were made last Sunday, in a dry, bright, poppy strewn garden. Poppies are so vibrant, the simple shapes and intensity of colour please me. Perspective and flower drawings are interesting, how you can suggest depth with the … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, drawing, flowers, lifedrawing, poppies, sketchbook, summerart
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Spring Revision.
Painting after the event. The lack of model. Things get more plastic, colours stronger, design more obvious. The driving ideas in this work are sunlight on form, interiors and what is real in the world of the painting. Again, Matisse … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Figurative, life drawing, matisse, Painting, Picasso
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Sketches of my family.
A in the sunshine. Acrylic and pencil on paper.This work was about the full on power of the sun and what it does to colour and form. E at work. Acrylic and pencil on brown paper in a sketchbook.My youngest … Continue reading
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Self Portrait April 2020
I think this is finished with. For a while. Pensive self portrait. April 2020. Oil on canvas.Painted at different times of day, in different clothes, on different chairs (all things that were slightly unfortunate). You can tell it’s painted from … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Cezanne, contemporary art, figurative art, life drawing, oil on canvas, painter, Painting, self portrait
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Self Portrait update.
How quickly things can build. Since last week I have had two sessions at different times of the day. The best light is at 5pm but I’m almost always cooking for the family then. Due to a haircut (I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Cezanne, Figurative, life drawing, oil on canvas, Painting, portrait, Van Gogh
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Self Portraits 2020.
This canvas I paint over every few years with a self portrait. Good practice, plus, with photography being what it is, there is still a record of the last version. Self portraits usually look a bit odd, an intense stare, … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorian Gray, life drawing, Oil painting, self portrait, Sketches
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Sculpture.
These are works made almost by accident from times when I was tidying up in the garden or on the phone; they are 3D doodles. The Couple. around 6ft of garden materials. Different photographs of the sculpture. Since being made … Continue reading
Ed.
My youngest son has the pleasure of my company as I take him to various lessons. He’s now at home, next to me doing his homework now… Mostly I’m designing on the laptop while he’s learning but sometimes I’ll start … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, lifedrawing, Portraits, sketch, sketchbook, trombone art
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Miles Davis Sketches.
Watching the documentary ‘Birth Of The Cool’ on the brilliant BBC Iplayer. I think I prefer biographies and autobiographies in print than in film form. The performances are still good though and the faces of the protagonists were mesmerising.The usual … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, drawing, Frances Taylor Davis, jazz, miles davis, Miles runs the Voodoo down, sketch
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B thinking: the sketches.
So, what do we have here, then? Some sketches form life, some colour tests, some studies and one of the points of inspiration, a Rembrandt self-portrait.
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Tagged Art, drawing, life drawing, Painting, Sketches, study
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Portrait of B thinking.
It’s taken a while. In the next few posts I’ll show how this work came to be. Portrait of B thinking. Oil on wood. 14.02.2020. 14″ square. See details. Some real up-close details and the palette.
Red painting 3. The Mysteries.
The Mysteries. Oil on canvas. 90cm square.I think that’s pretty much it. The ideas behind this work were:• To make something on a very red ground after doing a few paintings on very blue backgrounds• To make a work that … Continue reading
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Tagged fine art, Mary Ward centre, Oil painting, Painting, Pompeii
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