Typical, no sooner do I start to re-integrate increasingly creative projects into day-to-day life, they start popping up like frequent popping things. I have an everlasting fascination with the way our minds recognise patterns, even in chaos. Without this we would not have art, writing, or see Jesus in pieces of toast. We strive to [...]
If you’ve been paying attention around here (or on flickr), you’ll be aware of a re-kindling of old techniques for the recent pet and animal portraits. Such efforts are far more rewarding when they are commissioned, so a new website was inevitable! PetPortraitArt.co.uk This currently very modest site will be a focus for promoting pet [...]
This is the latest drawing: pencil on Bristol Boad, around A4 in size. I’ve been experimenting with different papers recently. This and the previous drawing ( a very cute Miniature Schnauzer ) were created on Bristol Board – a very hardy, white paper that despite its smooth, hot pressed surface, accepts pencil very well (if [...]
If this morning was any indication, today threatened to thunder uncontrollably down hill into what all you cool internet types would recognise as a Big Fat Über-Fail! Having this week purchased additional gear to make the most of drawing and sketching on-site (as opposed to snapping photographs and sketches then working purely in my “studio”), [...]
I am sketching at a nearby church late on Sunday morning (see image), and experience an interesting encounter. Some of the dialogue here may be paraphrased but I assure you not exaggerated. I stand at one side of the gated entrance – the most interesting composition in that particular light – and peek up from [...]
