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Tag Archives: sketchbook
Florida Art.
Palm Beach house for Mo.We went on a family holiday to Florida. Palm Beach, Key Largo, Key West and Miami Beach.I packed a big sketchbook and some acrylic paints and some pencils. I found the strong sunlight and deep shadows … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, florida art, key west, Painting, Palm beach, sketchbook
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Drawing from Rodin.
Going to Rodin at the Tate Modern, was as good as I imagined it could be. Really thought provoking and exciting, a show with ideas on scale, theme, revision, finish, intuition, lack of colour, the body and sexuality. It makes … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, drawing, ey exhibition, figurative art, polychromos pencils, rodin, sketchbook, tate modern
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Sketchbooks: Travel.
Gails in South Kensington. Having a coffee. This reminds me of a bus stop picture I made in powder paint circa 1985… Sketching my son sketching x3. On the Northern line. Showing him differing approaches to starting a drawing. My … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, drawing, northern line art, sketch, sketchbook, train art, tube art
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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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Square sketchbook. London Town.
Here’s the view from: Prom number 20, Monmouth coffee, Chilango’s Brewer Street, A bar in Coal Drop Yard Kings Cross and Buck House lawn!
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Tagged drawing, londonart, pencils, proms, sketchbook
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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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Poppies
Poppies in a Derbyshire garden. A bit more thought and time than a sketch, less trouble and strife than a finished work. The teeming life – see the snail in one flower, the spider in the other flower and the … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, flower art, pencils, poppies, sketchbook
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Regent’s Park. Woods, the canal, walkers and giraffes (again).
These are all made on Saturday mornings when one of my sons is playing football. I have around 90 minutes to myself, which is nice. Regent’s Park woods (Changeable weather). Acrylics and pencil. A3.Regent’s Park canal (Sweeping view). Pencil. Two … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, landscape, London art, Regents Park art, sketchbook
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Abstractions
A set of 3, a set of 4. Coloured pencils and pen on recycled paper. A5.Taking an old family photo as a start, these set of 4 sketches got simpler, calmer and more curvy.
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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Hands
I’ve been on public transport and find that instead of glaring at people without masks on, I’d rather look at my hands and draw what I see.
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Tagged drawing, hands, pencils, sketch, sketchbook
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Derbyshire views.
While staying a week in Derbyshire I had enough time to make a few works. In landscape painting I’m trying to make my viewpoint wide the bridge to get the sense of the way the human eye takes in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Derbyshire art, Figurative, landscape, Painting, sketchbook, still life, Taddy Porter
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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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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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Brown Sketchbook. Even more!
These pages are about watching my youngest son learn. One of my favourite studies. The sunlight was blinding. The composition seems to work, there’s enough space, perspective, colours and lines to be interesting. Here’s the other side of the garden, … Continue reading
The Brown Sketchbook. 4. And more…
Here’s a scary page, after talking to my youngest son about fleas we had a look at Robert Hooke’s brilliant and historically important Micrographica. Some of the art is by my son. The numbers look like interesting numerology but are … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, flea, lockdownart, sketchbook, Sketches, weirdart
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The Brown Sketchbook. 3. More.
Most of these pages have been worked on over a period of weeks or months. The large image is originally from watching 5 nations Rugby (underneath the paper he’s the kicker of the England team). There’s help with homework, kids … Continue reading
The Brown Sketchbook. 2. People!
I do like drawing people. Most of these people I know very well. The nude was a model from a few years ago.
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Brown paper sketchbook. 1. Doodles!
This is the first batch of images from a nice LP sized sketchbook with brown card pages from CassArt. I’ve been going back to old techniques I used at college, pasting in doodles and making the pages into an abstracted … Continue reading
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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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Tagged drawing, figurative art, life drawing, Painting, sketch, sketchbook
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