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Saturday, 11 February 2012 20:17 |
The beauty of being an artist is that you can do what you like. Indeed that is required of you, but there is pressure from others to do this or that - like you did before, but its more fun to paint exactly what whim tugs your elbow. The drawing [ … ] |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 11 February 2012 20:48 |
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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. The lack of straight lines generates a sort of 'hobb [ … ] |
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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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Last Updated on Saturday, 04 February 2012 21:55 |
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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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Last Updated on Tuesday, 07 February 2012 15:15 |
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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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