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Blog Archive 2005 - 2015
Landscape Sketchbook work
I have been making quite a lot of drawings from landscape recently - these are all from observation from a moving coach.
Snow Scene Drawing
This drawing was based on the walk we made across the snowy fields.The fruit cages, supports and dried canes provide such visually strong structures against the white flatness of the snow, which makes the photos below look like drawings
Drawing in the new Ashmolean galleries
I went to the new galleries at the Ashmolean Museum today. I always enjoy drawing at the Ashmolean but found it more inspiring to draw from the sculpture than the painting. New galleries are great and transform the place. Very crowded and some parts still not fully...
Life Class Watercolours
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More Lectures – for drawing in.
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Remembering the summer in Provence
I worked on this for sometime. It's quite small really - acrylic on watercolour paper - about 13x10ins. I made some initial working drawings in my A6 sketchbook, because the composition was complicated and not really planned but felt towards intuitively, combining...
Paris Sketchbook
This is the first page of the A6 sketchbook I took to Paris over half term, with my 6th form students. We visited a wide range of galleries and museums including Musée d'Orsay, Pompidou Centre, Malliol Museum, Musée Zadkine , Musée Bourdelle , Rodin Museum and...
Drawing a lecture
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Inspired by Turner
When I was about 14, I went to a large exhibition of Turner's work, including sketchbooks and sketches, at what was then the Tate Gallery and now Tate Britain. I spent the return journey scribbling on a piece of paper as the coach chased the sun down the M4. Today I...
Observed and composed
Sketchbook work a week apart. Drawing in presentation on the left while the right hand drawing is a working drawing for a painting based on memories of Callas in France from this Summer.