Category Archives: Life Drawing

Sketches on a trip to London.

Posted on August 16, 2018 by

The Natural History Museum followed by the V&A. Testing out the very black grease pencil (chinagraph pencil).

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Sketchweek 6: Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret + my son on the tube.

Posted on August 4, 2018 by

This was a fantastic show. Meow Meow is incredible. Musically pretty perfect too. I pray for a recorded version to torture / play to the kids in the car. Setting the scene: The Barbican hall before the performance. Pencil. 40 … Continue reading →

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Sketchweek 5: Drawing in the dark.

Posted on August 3, 2018 by

‘Draw without looking at the paper’. The sort of thing an art teacher will say to a student. As it was nightime around a camp fire when this was made there was no choice. When I looked at the paper … Continue reading →

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Sketchweek 4: Greek statues from the British Museum.

Posted on August 2, 2018 by

With time to kill and near the British Museum… I would normally rather draw the people traipsing around the artefacts; it was fun for once to see how it would be drawing from antiquity – like an old fashioned ‘proper’ … Continue reading →

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Sketchweek 3: Anthony Hopkins as King Lear.

Posted on August 1, 2018 by

Again, watching Shakespeare on the TV. Again, the TV sketching rules are: No freeze framing, No revising afterwards. So it’s like a moving life drawing class. King Lear is great to draw as he goes through such a transformation. Anthony … Continue reading →

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Sketchweek 2: Climbing in Derbyshire

Posted on July 31, 2018 by

My sons went Geckos climbing  club on a holiday (link here). This was in the beautiful Derbyshire peak district on gritstone which is great to climb on. I stayed on the ground and watched in wonder. There was some time … Continue reading →

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Sketchweek 1: Family

Posted on July 30, 2018 by

The amount of times you’ve looked at your family. As you know them so well, there is only so much you can fit into a drawing of them. My Father. 130718. Pencil in sketchbook. A sense of calm. A detail … Continue reading →

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