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Tag Archives: pencil
Sketchbook pages
These sketches are mainly from my little A5 notebook, which is filled with graphic notes. I have it on me most of the time. As you can see, it comes in handy when waiting. I’ve been to Madrid, Radio 4 … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, moleskine, notebook, pencil, sketchebooks
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Birthday Portrait. 15.
15. pencils and acrylic on board. A4.There’s some interesting colour choices to make it 3 dimensional. Starting with a mid green, then purple, browns, a little blue and then some red. It follows you around the room.
Illustrations for a local magazine.
An article on Food banks. A dreaded spindley fish for a piece on river danger. Hedgehogs, loud neighbours, worry, mayonnaise and a photoshop off cut of all the food bank drawings on top of each other.
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Tagged drawing, dreaded spindley fish, Illustration, iluustrator, pencil
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Square Sketchbook. Derbyshire landscapes.
The Nine Ladies Stone Circle. Two sketches of a beautiful spot, the end of a fantastic walk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Ladies Bolsover Castle, a saucy fun castle and the rather more haughty and expansive Chatsworth.
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Tagged Bolsover castle, drawing, landscapes, nine ladies stone circle, pencil, sketchbook
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Life Drawing. Man in pencil.
Look left 2. Pencil on paper. 100 x 70cm.This was an enjoyable hour and a half. After some initial sketching, the work was made from right to left as I am very left handed and a terrible smudger. Putting in … Continue reading
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Tagged life drawing, Male nude, pencil, Skellington, sketch
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Life drawing. The night of the 4B Pencil.
Thinking in Mono. Pencil on paper. 100 x 70cm.It was enjoyable not to have to worry about colour, brushes and cleaning up. A wash of Paynes Grey and liquin was put on the material at home. As usual, if only … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, drawing, life drawing, London art, Male nude, Modern art, pencil
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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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Holiday Sketch Series 5: Naples.
Sea Bathers, Naples. An amalgam of the previous sketches, this could well be worked up into a painting. It made all those life drawing classes make sense in the real world. All body shapes out for sunbathing and swimming fun … Continue reading
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Tagged artist in italy, drawing, Naples, pencil, sketcbook
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Holiday Sketches Series 4: Pompeii & Hadrian’s Villa.
The main theatre at Pompeii. You can see how hot it was. My wife (the lady in blue) momentarily sat in front of me before retreating to the shade, so she was quickly captured on the page. The sun bleached … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, Hadrian, holiday, pencil, Pompeii, sketchbook, Tivoli
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Holiday Sketches Series 3: Rome
THE PANTHEON. Has to be in Caps really. Probably my favourite building. Some details of all the people and that mesmerising hole at the top of the dome. An earlier version of THE PANTHEON. An impossible building to draw. Too … Continue reading
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Tagged artist in italy, drawing, pantheon, pencil, sketchbook
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Holiday Sketches Series 2a: Tivoli in pencil
The view from our accommodation in Tivoli was sublime. Hills, waterfalls, rocks with caves, a zig zag path into a gorge, a city on a precipice, a misty view out onto the plain and a terraced hillside full of different … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, drawing, pencil, Tivoli
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Holiday Sketches Series: 1 Travel & Pisa.
I love drawing on planes. A captive audience.
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Tagged artist in italy, book art, drawing, pencil, Sketches
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Charmouth sketches.
These are all in a beautiful and practical new landscape sketchbook, made by our good friend, Sarah A. Beside the seaside. Graphite stick and pencil.The sound of hammers on rocks as fossil hunters seek a coelacanth. The idea was to … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, blue, drawing, Falmouth, Figurative, landscapes, pencil
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Gallery studies. Epstein, Van Gogh and Bacon.
Study of The Visitation, a sculpture by Jacob Epstein. Pencil on sketchbook. Made by standing infront of the work in the Tate Britain (while overhearing Simon Schama enthuse on David Bomberg, which made me very happy). I really like the … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, Gagosian, palamino blackwing, pencil, sketch, sketchbook, Tate Britain
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Life Drawing: Black & White into Colour. Plus Umbrellas indoors.
The Quick & the Quicker. Acrylic and pencil on paper. 1 hour infant of the model, 30 minutes in the studio. I’ve been looking at underpainting, thinking to get the important part down from life and add things like colour … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, life drawing, Mary Ward centre, Painting, painting from life, pencil
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A birthday card.
Some details and the idea behind the choice of paper and techniques. I do love the early colour process, Autochrome. These photographs on glass have a really interesting patina.
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Tagged Birthday Card, drawing, paper, pencil, portrait
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I’m in an Exhibition, plus many sketches.
Sorry, it’s been a while. I’ve been working hard on a graphics project, so time has passed since the last post. I’m in a lovely exhibition at the NudeTinCan gallery in St. Albans. It’s called ‘Nude or fully Clothed’ which suits the wide range of good works on show.I have two pieces in the exhibition: Repeat Performance … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, exhibition, life drawing, nudetincan, pencil, sketch
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Sketchweek 7: Highgate wood.
To end the week here’s the tranquil landscape of Highgate Wood. The dog I’m looking after wanted to rest, so out came the book and this is what was recorded. The path. 040818. Graphite stick and HB pencil. A detail … Continue reading
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Tagged highgate, landscape, pencil, sketch, Woods
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Sketchweek 5: Drawing in the dark.
‘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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Tagged artist, campfire, life drawing, night, pencil, sketch
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