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 | Learning backwards
There is a real danger of the media, or one's familiarity with a media, preventing movement or growth because of that very habitual usage. My relationship with charcoal goes back a lo... |
24-04-2012
Word count: 227
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 | Figure model
Working direct from small drawings I find it helpful to make models like this. Air drying clay squeezed around wire gives me these useful forms that I can rotate and work from endlessly. Th... |
23-04-2012
Word count: 107
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 | Some thing are a little before their time. This drypoint was found today in box, one of three 'artist proofs' that never made it to completion, and were tucked away and forgotten. Now, I am intrigued.
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27-03-2012
Word count: 124
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 | I am always surprised by the past, this from the early '90s is no exception.
I often used television as an inspiration source and always latched on to contemporary dance as priority. Poised in front of ... |
03-03-2012
Word count: 187
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Catching fishes for my tea.
Finding food and then cooking it for a meal is an enduring thing - simple things like found blackberries in an apple pie are wonderful.
Simplicity we love - if we have... |
20-02-2012
Word count: 124
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 | A little piece that happened by itself.
Sometimes I toil away at pieces - others like this seem too easy.
I resist the temptation to clarify, it is its own statement.
there are issues - I don't care.
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17-02-2012
Word count: 98
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 | This is a small painting, about A4 in size and not shown on this blog until today. It has been at this stage for a week or so and left for me to review. When to leave a painting is difficult - yet as soo... |
02-01-2012
Word count: 203
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 | The quest for an eloquent figure
This is drawing #49. Yesterday afternoon I prepared 54 pieces of paper 21cm x 7cm and worked steadily drawing figures until something happened. This one sort of di... |
24-11-2011
Word count: 157
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 | Pastel pigment hits the button
Given an afternoon - I will draw figures. For a while I ponder my options given that I am working on black photographic foam core. In the end I settle on pastel and array ... |
08-09-2011
Word count: 114
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For me, setting out to paint well is not the way forward, better to lay down an honest mark in a colour that reflects the objective, this may be good in the end.
Painting never gets any easier, becaus... |
01-09-2011
Word count: 93
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