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Tag Archives: Art
Balance
Balance. Oil and pencils on canvas board. 42 x 32 cm.A balance of hot and cold colours, detail and blank space. The board was primed with thick acrylic which soaked the oil paint up, making the paint look like dry … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, composition, life drawing, Mary Ward centre, oil on canvas, Painting
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Green, blue, white.
Green, Blue, White. Acrylic of grey-green then Prussian blue and Zinc white oil paint sometimes thinned with Walnut oil or Liquin on canvas. 76 x 90cm.An exercise in painting two colours onto a third. If I was to start again, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Life painting, londonart, Mary Ward centre, Painting, Prussian blue
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Cricket art?
So, I now have a son who plays cricket. This involves a fair bit of looking at people playing in cricket matches. Luckily I have a sketch book and some pencils to hand. Cricket has rhythms, perspectives, big skies, trees … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, cricket, drawing, Regents park, sketchbook, sporting art
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A tree as metaphor
Growth. Japanese ink and pencil on old watercolour paper. 22 x 22cm.This was given to an old friend who has been having a time of it lately. I was thinking of how this tree has had branches snap, has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, drawing, Hampstead garden suburb, Painting, tree art
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Zoom life drawing. Den Haag.
Den Haag 1. Oil and pencil on gesso / wood. 200 x 450mm. I’m not sure if this will ever be finished. Three poses by the great actor Robin. The light streaming through his door really interested me. How to make … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Den Haag, Dutch painting, figurative art, life drawing, painter
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Life Drawing. Storms
Stormy Weather. Ink, acrylic, pencil, oil pastel, compressed charcoal and thinned oil paint on paper. 90 x 70 cm.This started off at home with some ink I had out and didn’t want to waste. This ink was splatted over the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, figurative art, life drawing, Painting, Tivoli
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Life drawing. Actor in mono.
Recently I’ve been taking my time on finishing paintings started in the life room (two weeks worth are still needing more work). I decided to make something quickly that would be fine without any adjustment. Out came a bottle of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, figurative art, ink, life drawing, Painting
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5 Portraits.
Here are 5 portraits made over the last few months. 1. Green Eye 2. Uncomfortable 3. Leaning 4. Laptop 5. Haircut Three self portraits (I’m now wearing vari-focal glasses, which makes for some fun distortions), my daughter and my sister. … Continue reading
Zoom Life Drawing. Y in Berlin.
Y in Berlin. Acrylic, oils and pencils on paper. 90 x 70cm.This started out just as a pencil drawing in the zoom life class. The model (Y) is in Berlin, hence the title. It does seem to have something of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Figurative, figure painting, life drawing, Michelangelo, portrait, yuka
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Zoom life drawing and after.
A and Michelangelo. Acrylic and pencil on paper.This developed over the week. Taking different Michelangelo sculptures and inserting them into the composition. I didn’t know where it was going but it arrived at this state. The model ‘A’ is still … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, life drawing, Male nude, Michelangelo, Painting
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Zoom life drawing class 1. The Goddess Tara (on green).
The Goddess Tara (on green). Acrylics on paper. 100 x 70cm.I heard some of the great radio talks ‘The History of the World in 100 Objects’ again this week. One episode was about a bronze statue of the Buddhist goddess … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, figurative art, Goddess, life drawing, Painting, Tara
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Neil and dogs in the sunshine. 5. Details.
And that’s the book. Hope you enjoyed it.
Neil and two dogs in the sunshine. 4. The finished work.
The whole family in paint.
Life Drawing. How do I get to Carnegie Hall?
Practice man, practice. How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Acrylics, pencil, oils and oil pastels on prepared paper. 100 x 70cm.Sometimes a piece of work just takes time and effort to finish. This started off as a 30 minute … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Carnegie hall, life drawing, mixed media, Painting
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Life drawing. On Gold.
On gold. Acrylics, gesso, pencil and oil paint on prepared paper. 70 x 100cm.A frame on the floor really helped with the dynamism and proportion of the figure in the space. You can see how near I was in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, figurative art, gold, life drawing, Painting
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Portrait of R looking up. How the painting was made.
After each session I took a picture. This takes us up to the nearly finished work. The painting is rather hard to capture in a camera, which pleases me. The light changes the work a lot. The next post will … Continue reading
Life Drawing. C a l m . .
Calm. Acrylics, pencil and oil paint on paper. 70 x 100cm.There was some interesting times in the making of this work, fun with oil paint and keeping the atmosphere of the original time in the life studio. Some details showing … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, Calm, figurative art, life drawing, Painting
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Under the influence of Giotto.
I haven’t done many religious works in my life. After buying a beautiful book on Giotto’s work at Assisi, it seemed the right time to make some studies, to try and work out how he gets the emotional intensity of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, Assisi, Giotto, religious art, sketchbook
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R&C
Mother & child. Acrylics on canvas. A good friend has had the most charming young man. I’ve put the work in an old museum frame, not sure what frame it needs at the moment. Here’s pretty much every stage of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, life drawing, mother and child, Painting
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