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Blog Archive 2005 - 2015
Logo Designs
I have been doing a lot of work on the logos above. The brief was for a logo that would help give an identity to the Abingdon Film Unit. Logos for the Crown film Unit and GPO Film Unit as well as Atlantic records were given as suitable examples. In other words we were...
River Ock Sketches
Wash drawing
This is a small wash drawing done on the nearby River Ock. I used it today as the starting point for these small paintings, which I sent as birthday cards for my sister and mum. It's amazing how a small drawing can be used for quite different interpretations. I had...
Drawing by the Cherwell
Drew this on the River Cherwell by Addison's walk in the grounds of Magdalen College, Oxford. I hadn't drawn there for a long time. It has been cleaned up but still retains the green freshness of spring at this time of year when colour floats; when white blossom...
Sketchbook studies
I made these two sketchbook drawings to help me compose the two "spring garden" paintings. They are worked from photos and memory of the place, which is the garden/orchard behind the Art department as seen from the painting studio. There is an interesting...