This week 52Frames is Minimalist, with nude as an extra challenge (https://52frames.com/). This gave me an opportunity to look through my life drawing and see if I could rework something. I had several goes at this and this is the final image. The drawing is...
This week 52Frames is titled Hello From..! I travelled up to Scotland on Tuesday and stopped at Tebay Services for coffee and a slice of very good chocolate and stout cake. The cafe was very quiet so I sat at a window table, and this was the view over...
52Frames (https://52frames.com/) is a free community photography project, where a challenge is set every week and responses posted on their website My friend completed this last year producing some interesting images and most importantly doing something every...
Some more sessions drawing out and about. One week I actually decided to try painting from life. I haven't done this for years, and although it is not altogether successful, there are bits of it I really like. Even more importantly I like the fact that I did paint...
I spent a day Glass Painting in Ely Stained Glass Museum. It was very interesting and great fun. I saw the course in the paper and was lucky enough to secure a place. There were 6 of us and everyone did something different. I have 4 victorian roundels with Aesops...
Earlier this year went to a sketchbook workshop with Shelley Burgoyne. Had previously been on a print workshop, but this was about pushing ideas in your sketchbook. It was excellent and full of great new ways of working and help to move work forward. We took items...
At last after a long absence a new post! Had a bad few months so decided to sign up for my friends night class. We have been doing some experimentation with cubism which I really enjoyed. Three drawings of objects from slightly different angles in different media:...
Imprint of Hill and Habitat Today - Rocks Patty and I have been spending quite a lot of time at Tegg's Nose looking closely at the surroundings. We are preparing for an exhibition, Imprint of Hill and Habitat, later this year inspired by the park. There is so much...
Productive part of an afternoon spent with drawing partner in crime painting a brick for the Macclesfield Brick Project. This is a really fun community project which seems to have been enthusiastically embraced by many people. The end result is fantastic as can be...
Well more birds! Maybe a theme emerging......I have been trying to tidy up a bit and finish things off. This is a picture I started more than 4 years ago, on a days watercolour painting at Martin Mere with Tony Disley. Eventually finished it a couple of weeks ago. I...