music and dance
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 | Harmonic sounds
This painting was completed yesterday. It is satisfying to bring a piece to a state that I feel is conclusion. It has been slowly developed over a month or so from a neglected charcoal d... |
20-01-2012
Word count: 161
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 | Gentle Music
My inclinations for these players are soft colour combinations on a background of pigeon grays. Such gentle shades invoke the beautiful sounds of Early Music like that of Guillaume de Macha... |
03-01-2012
Word count: 167
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 | The sluggish painter
I suppose sluggish has to do with slugs. Today has been an uphill struggle, I have a few day to get back to painting after about seven weeks off which has resulted in a rather slug-... |
22-11-2011
Word count: 251
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 | Even when I'm playful - I'm serious.
I roughed this in the other night just for fun. Looking at it later it stood up quite well, well enough to tinker with it some more. A minor adjustment to the upper ... |
13-07-2011
Word count: 95
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 | This is the final state of a canvas that was featured earlier with the title 'cloud nine', but has seen considerable reworking. The linked hands in a ring take one straight to H. Matisse, but apart from ... |
11-07-2011
Word count: 157
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 | This is the latest version - the Ultramarine tint setting up the simple browns and grays in the figures. By interlocking the arms I insert emotional content into these altered dancers that speaks of huma... |
08-07-2011
Word count: 91
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 | Art can get very serious.
In order to defuse this overblown 'importance' the injection of fun is great - especially here where I paint R.& J. over the top of an cerebral abstract that had become a l... |
06-07-2011
Word count: 63
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 | Ballet is a precise business - constant reference to the textbook line is of the essence. Yet like playing music and drawing the figure, to be bound by the detail is to remove every ounce of life from th... |
04-07-2011
Word count: 90
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This morning I make six new explorations on large paper with oil, ink and watercolour. Keeping them as powerful and uncomplicated as possible by working on the floor fairly quickly with gener... |
23-06-2011
Word count: 116
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 | These three dancers have been the object of my attention for some time. This rapid oil sketch tests the central horizontal section to see if it holds up as a work in its own right. Apart from the enjoyab... |
22-06-2011
Word count: 146
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