Blog Archive 2005 - 2015

Remembering the summer in Provence

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...

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Paris Sketchbook

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...

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Observed and composed

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.

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