Drawing Pad

New Year - New Portrait

I blogged about two other self-portraits in an earlier post

This one is only 10cm high, made in my Seawhite A6 landscape sketchbook using watercolour with a pentel brush pen and a Uni Posca marker for the white. Additional black line made with a 0.2 Pilot technical pen. It's hard to not look serious when one is drawing!

Brushpen drawing

Two recent pages using brush pens. I really like how the brush forces one to choose simple shapes; to abstract what one see.

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Berlin: selected drawing

I filled 40 pages of a new (Arborita) A6 landscape sketchbook while in Berlin with Sixth formers from school. Drawing people as we travelled on U-Bahn and bus, art we saw in the galleries and small observations of places seen. Here's a selection.

Art in Berlin

Extraordinary Sculpture in the Bode Museum.

Amazing expressive black and white drawings and prints from Kollwitz
Berlin Sketchbook

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Mixed media natural forms

Drawing in class and outside: demos for clubs and lessons mostly.
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I'm always drawing the backs of heads

In church or on busses, it always the back of people. Surprisingly interesting!

Blue Train Journey

From my new 8"x8" travel Sketchbook. Beautifully made for me by Pink Pig

Three drawings from the train

Three trains down to our friends in the South of France.
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Inside and Out

Some recent sketchbook drawing

Ideas for painting

Since last Summer I have been keeping an A4 sketchbook for ideas. These are two early pages from the book, where I was developing ideas that had been started the previous February and eventually led to my painting "From Me to You"

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Shadows and Shapes

Theatrical Performance

I went up to Leamington Spa to see a student production of Titus Andronicus which my daughter directed, and did these in the half light of the auditorium. I liked the flowing quality and clear shapes.

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