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Thursday, 09 February 2012 20:07 |
 This one has been resting for a month, a quiet maturing of thought until a few days ago when I put it on the easel again. More definition in the figures, the foreground remodelled and then I glaze most of the side zones to lift the middle section. Th [ … ] |
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Tuesday, 07 February 2012 14:52 |
 Pastoral Group
I have four or five versions of this figure group lodged around the studio, one even framed as a piece in its own right. Here then is a colour layout on the canvas to launch the new painting. The rocks and trees are taken from a local charcoal sketch and the rest has occurred over ti [ … ] |
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 20:20 |
I am attracted to shapes. This stark intrusion in the nature reserve at Rye Harbour stopped me, it insisted I record it.
That was Tuesday
All day today I have been working on shapes, not from this image, other ideas that I have that refuse to gel into any sort of manageable form. I draw, I paint a [ … ] |
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 21:10 |
The healing wing
Here is one of three watercolours I painted last Friday,
There were six, but three were discarded.
It seems that explanation is not always required.
As the artist I can provide a title as a clue to my thinking.
A google search provided little to overlay my thinking in the fir [ … ] |
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Saturday, 28 January 2012 21:36 |
Some time ago I made a wooden piece called Torso, inspired by some earlier drawings that persisted in my thinking. Encouraged by a gouache study of the figures I ventured on an oil painting around 1.2M high.
Now following the demise (sorry, destruction) of my last idea I am increasingly unsure abou [ … ] |
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