With a flourish, the artist signed her name, content in the fact that the painting, infact this most difficult of difficult paintings, was completed. She stood back, and viewed her artwork, yes, it was all there, the castle, the dragon, the landscape, the muted colours, the flowing river, the setting sun, all there. And regardless […]
I love twilight, its my favourite time of the day, when the golden afternoon light goes hazy and starts to turn to the purple night. But, with the abysmal weather we’ve had this week, the depressing grey light starts to fade by 5pm, and although its not night-time, it might as well be when you’re trying to […]
Its an old English joke – or at least it used to be when I was a teenager, that if you said to someone “Would you like to come up and see my etchings?” it meant you were inviting them back to your place for sexual congress. I’m not sure where it originates, but it was […]
He contacted me a few weeks ago with regard to me drawing him and his wife, in the nude (them, not me!). They wanted a picture of the two of them in a tastefully erotic life drawing pose, we quickly agreed a price and a size for the piece of art. He and his wife […]
Having spent a lot of Friday drawing out the last part of the working drawing for the “obscure as it is obvious” picture, I was as sure as I could be that I had got it all right. Admittedly the dragon itself was always going to be the most difficult part, since everyone has their […]
The “obscure as it is obvious” picture that I wrote about a couple of posts ago is slowly coming together. I now have the concept, that came in a week of intense thinking and sketching out ideas on paper, Â chatting with the client and asking his thoughts. It’s just depicting it in the working drawing […]
Yesterday when it was so gloriously sunny I went for a walk. A muddy walking boots over rolling fields sort of walk, as its always a good way of putting thoughts in order whilst I’m doing it, sometimes it may be thinking about a way of planning a new painting, or of how to tackle a […]
Someone told me a few years ago that if you’re digging a hole for yourself, then stop the digging. But, others advise that if you want something then you have to dedicate yourself totally to it, one hundred percent, and focus on it, and keep going after it, because if you don’t follow your dream, then […]
