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Party sketches

Posted on July 12, 2017 by
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Summer sketches. Surrey Flowers & Lewes Lido

Posted on July 10, 2017 by

These sketchbook pages are concerned with sunlight, interesting mark making and colour. The first three are images were made in gardens that are growing like there is no tomorrow. How to capture all this? These images were made at Lewes … Continue reading →

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Sketchmania.

Posted on May 29, 2017 by

So, here’s a mixture of drawings that don’t fit into a theme, apart  from they were all drawn from life. We have: A five piece brass ensemble, a friend in the sun, art homework, my family, hand, trips to central … Continue reading →

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Life Drawing 7. Bright!

Posted on March 20, 2017 by

  Heaters are great to paint. Heater on a hot colour. The bright base layer helped the skintone, gold paint helped too. Acrylics and pencils. 1 hour for the main painting, the pencils took around 30 minutes while eating a … Continue reading →

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TABOO

Posted on March 17, 2017 by

The tv series was pretty good fun and never less than a feast for the eye. As we watched the pen was used to take notes of all the unusual physiognomies infront of me. These were then collated in photoshop, … Continue reading →

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Feel Ortho in Wales. Portraits of the DC family. Holiday Sketchbook 5.

Posted on August 28, 2016 by

This was a long weekend in the amazing Foel Ortho. See http://www.farmhouseinwales.com for more info. The images have an intense atmosphere to them which wasn’t present at the the time. I did drink a fair bit of Whisky so it … Continue reading →

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The airport waiting game. Holiday Sketchbooks 4.

Posted on August 18, 2016 by

La Guardia. Ipads on the tables. Sharing a chair. A google based game. Indulgent Canadians helping my sons out.   Heads down. No boogie. We were talking about The Shining, hence the 70’s colouring of the airport. It was all … Continue reading →

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