Sketch for a painting.
Acrylics 9cm x 9cm. Click to enlarge.
31 October 2010
30 October 2010
29 October 2010
28 October 2010
Down at the Downcast Café
27 October 2010
26 October 2010
25 October 2010
23 October 2010
22 October 2010
Foreshortening
21 October 2010
20 October 2010
De Bonio
Step 1: Wear a white hat to present the facts of the case.
Step 2: Wear a green hat to generate ideas on how to handle the case.
Step 3: Wear a black hat to state the drawbacks of the case.
Step 4: Wear a yellow hat to list the benefits of the case.
Step 5: Wear a red hat to get everyone's gut feelings about the case.
Step 6: Wear a blue hat to summarise and adjourn the meeting.
Step7: Wear a dog hat to bite your neighbour, and shit on the carpet.
Pen and ink with watercolour. 21cm x 13cm. Click to enlarge. With apologies to Edward de Bono
Step 2: Wear a green hat to generate ideas on how to handle the case.
Step 3: Wear a black hat to state the drawbacks of the case.
Step 4: Wear a yellow hat to list the benefits of the case.
Step 5: Wear a red hat to get everyone's gut feelings about the case.
Step 6: Wear a blue hat to summarise and adjourn the meeting.
Step7: Wear a dog hat to bite your neighbour, and shit on the carpet.
Pen and ink with watercolour. 21cm x 13cm. Click to enlarge. With apologies to Edward de Bono
19 October 2010
Open Days
18 October 2010
La Nouvelle Vague
16 October 2010
14 October 2010
The Seer
12 October 2010
Card the Tenth
Card No.10 in the current series, hot off the press. The Hidden Mountain could be beneath your feet right now.
Woodcut 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.
Woodcut 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.
11 October 2010
08 October 2010
The God Slot
The Gentleman's Sketching Klub Internationale de Londres met today on the steps of St.Paul's cathedral. Our esteemed leader chose the North Bank of the river to draw, but I preferred to do some people watching in and around the church. My first victim was a garrulous lady who was too busy chatting on the phone to notice me drawing her. I didn't intend to make her look 20 years older and it's probably just as well she didn't see it.
Nowadays you have to pay a large entry fee to look around the cathedral. Sod that. However there is a small chapel for quiet prayer and contemplation at no charge, so I took a pew and drew these guys praying. The chap near the pillar was the spitting image of Ricky Gervais. The insert is a blurred photo taken with my phone.
We met up in Paternoster Square for a sandwich and discussed the skills required to draw chickens.
Brushpens on A5 cartridge sketchbook. Click to enlarge.
Nowadays you have to pay a large entry fee to look around the cathedral. Sod that. However there is a small chapel for quiet prayer and contemplation at no charge, so I took a pew and drew these guys praying. The chap near the pillar was the spitting image of Ricky Gervais. The insert is a blurred photo taken with my phone.
We met up in Paternoster Square for a sandwich and discussed the skills required to draw chickens.
Brushpens on A5 cartridge sketchbook. Click to enlarge.
Angel Stomachs
The eighth card in the current series. I've been told that angels don't have stomachs: I guess that's why you never see a fat one. I absent mindedly cut the "e" as a "c" but somehow it doesn't bother me.
Woodcut 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.
Woodcut 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.
07 October 2010
Military budget
06 October 2010
05 October 2010
Exiled to Cyberia
Back in 1995 Cyberia was London's first internet cafe....probably one of the first on the planet. My studio was on the same street, and one day I saw it was unusually crowded. They were holding a special introductory event about this new thing called "the internet". This businessman started chatting to me; he couldn't understand what the internet was for and yet he was terribly anxious about being left "out of the loop". He was so worried that he didn't notice or care that I was painting him.
Watercolour 14cm x 10cm. Click to enlarge.
Watercolour 14cm x 10cm. Click to enlarge.
04 October 2010
The Black Hat
02 October 2010
Stairway to Heaven
According to The U.S.National Safety Council's data on accidents in 1,307 people died from falling down the stairs in 2000. An American citizen's lifetime odds of dying in this way were calculated as 1 in 2,739. Yesterday I discovered that one of my favourite singers, Sandy Denny died this way.
Of course none of this has anything to do with Card 6 (shown above) in the current series of woodcuts. See my earlier post for a different angle.
Woodcut 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.
Of course none of this has anything to do with Card 6 (shown above) in the current series of woodcuts. See my earlier post for a different angle.
Woodcut 30cm x 20cm. Click to enlarge.
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