blue sky, and thinking
[clouds I] [clouds II] [clouds III] cloudy skies; three small cloud study drawings on postcards… see some previous cloud drawings and sky sketches… blue sky thinking : a term used to define...
View Articlefield drawings
I think these four are the most successful ones (all are in a landscape sketchbook, about 9″ x 12″)… This one is in mixed media – ordinary ink pen, graphite pencil, indian ink and a little...
View Articlehere, there and everywhere [drawing]
I had some free time this week to get out sketching for an hour or so, here and there… … These are small sketches, about 14cm square (travelling light again, with a new sketchbook that just about fits...
View Articleprints and drawings
one of the lichenscapes etchings, proofed in colour… [etchings, proofs on various papers] … another road trip; subsequently did some while looking out of the window sketches to while away the seated...
View Articleon van gogh, trees, skies and birds
I went to see the current crowd-pulling exhibition at The Royal Academy this week, The Real van Gogh: The Artist and his Letters…. What person doesn’t feel an affinity with the life and work of...
View Articleblue sky, and thinking [again]
It has been very warm and sunny all this week, with a heatwave forecast for next week. I am finding this quite odd, when contrasted with the knowledge of a volcanic dust plume from an Icelandic volcano...
View Articlemore field studies [sketchbook]
thirty five landscape studies in an A5 sketchbook, 17th to 22nd April 2010… from realism… [sketchbook study - corner of a field with trees and hedgerow, 6" x 8"] to abstracted… [sketchbook study -...
View Articleframing june [in a sketchbook]
some sketches of some local views, in the course of cycling to places… it pays to set off early, so as not to be too late.. these sketchbook drawings are 29cm x 10cm… [small copse and wheat field -...
View Articleon thinking, clouds in a sketchbook
dear reader, i have had my head in the clouds again, a mild attack of the vapours… the heavy rains came (more of a rain deluge, really) and then swiftly went away again, giving us brilliant blue skies...
View Articlemore grey sky thinking, out of the blue
more cloud gazing this week, torrential rain all day on tuesday (a typically british summer’s day) – this was the view from the window at about 6pm… a room with a view i hadn’t really noticed how...
View Articleon drawing things out again
i have been focusing on some printmaking lately – but today, dear reader, you might like to take a peek inside this recent sketchbook… last weekend i started & subsequently filled this most...
View Articlewould you buy this painting?
[untitled water painting, acrylic on linen, 20cm x 20cm] dear reader, would you buy this painting? it’s never been in a gallery or an exhibition (it has no picture frame) and it’s very unlikely to be....
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