29 April 2019
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A friend of mine really liked the drawing I did at church on Easter Sunday, so I printed a copy for him: In fact, I printed it twice. The magenta ink was running out so the first copy was interesting … Continue reading
20 April 2019
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On the Meet-up walk I went on a couple of weeks ago, I took my sketchbook. Of the four drawings I did, three were pretty scrappy but I was quite pleased with this one, of an old beech tree: It … Continue reading
31 March 2019
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I often get my sketchbook out when I’m at church. Every now and then, it turns out my sketch links a little to the theme of the day. Last week, the sermon talk was entitled The Water of Welcome. As … Continue reading
30 March 2019
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That is the authentic spelling for when this astronomical model was created: It is a drawing I did recently in Oxford’s History of Science Museum. I started with a blind drawing – following the lines of the subject with my … Continue reading
22 March 2019
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Drawing a painting can be tricky. Should you try and capture what you see or make art inspired by art? I tend to lean towards the latter, as in this sketch based on a painting by Vilhelm Kyhn in the … Continue reading
23 February 2019
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I remember a school science experiment where you put different substances on one end of a piece of soaked blotting paper and watched as they separated out into different colours. As I recall, this was called chromatography and I think … Continue reading
22 February 2019
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Visiting RHS Rosemoor today, I took the time to sketch a cherry tree: With the buzzing bees In the perfumed shelter of The spring cherry trees That isn’t the most profound haiku ever, but it follows the western syllabic schema … Continue reading
16 February 2019
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Earlier this week, I went to a free exhibition of work by Chinese artist Lui Shou-kwan (1919 – 1975) at the Ashmolean. No photography is allowed in the exhibition but you are free to sketch. Here is my rendering of … Continue reading
11 February 2019
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Last night saw the start of another season of Endeavour, the Inspector Morse prequel. I watched it this evening and thought it got the series off to a good start – although it feels like a long time since it … Continue reading
3 February 2019
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Today’s Figuary lesson from Love Life Drawing was about focusing on the torso, so that’s what I did with today’s Croquis Café session: For each of these, I started by looking for the line along the top of the shoulders … Continue reading