Drawing Pad

Figure drawing to screen print

This quickly produced screen print developed from a recent small sketchbook drawing made in the life class.

Landscape Sketchbook work

I have been making quite a lot of drawings from landscape recently - these are all from observation from a moving coach. I've also been posting sketchbook work on a blog with my daughter over at drawtwo.

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 labelled. The painting is a mixed bag but all the more fun for that.

Life Class Watercolours

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More Lectures - for drawing in.

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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 the art fair FIAC.

We were only there 5 days so I tried to get 7 or 8 drawings done a day! I have posted a selection of the more interesting pages in my new gallery.

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 did something similar returning on a coach from the Turner and the Masters Exhibition.

Top drawing is an imaginative interpretation of the Oxfordshire landscape as seen from the coach window. the sketches below were made from the work in the exhibition.

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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.

People watching

Wash brush, pencil, fineliner and fast work

Drawing in a teashop

Two drawings while on holiday.