by Drawing Pad | 1 December, 2009 | Drawing, Sketchbooks
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by Drawing Pad | 14 November, 2009 | Drawing, Painting
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...
by Drawing Pad | 1 November, 2009 | Drawing, Sketchbooks, Travel
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...
by Drawing Pad | 17 October, 2009 | Drawing, Sketchbooks, Travel
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by Drawing Pad | 30 September, 2009 | Art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Painting, Sketchbooks, Travel
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....
by Drawing Pad | 14 September, 2009 | Sketchbooks
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.