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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.

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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Journey together

A page from my 8"x8" pink pig sketchbook. Working from memory of our journey from Nice to les Arcs in provence.

Persons observed

Drawing people while hanging around is a great time-filler.

On the M25 - drawing in a taxi.

Our Day Out

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New Sketchpad: Didcot to Paddington

New A6 Sketchpad. On my way to visit Tate Britain, where I saw the Francis Bacon exhibition, a brilliant show of selected drawings, and the Turner Prize displays. I also went to the new Saatchi gallery and an exhibition at the Royal College of Art showing student work-in-progress. I enjoyed seeing the work of a past student of mine - Anna Freeman.

New York - drawing people

Drawings while in New York

This drawing above was done just after seeing the exhibition of Elizabeth Peyton at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. the left hand drawing was used as the basis for a woodcut print.

New York - on our way

Departure lounge at Heathrow. I really like this drawing. Having prepared the paper before hand it was good to be able to use it to good effect.

Edinburgh Café