New project – a self portrait a day until Christmas. Getting back into drawing again has reminded me how important drawing is, and how bad mine currently is.We’re running up to Christmas now, and I have a lot of client work to do and will probably be working every day,so not so much chance to
Two Pomegranates
4th December 2005 It’s been over a week since I’ve had a new painting post, it feels good to be putting this one up today. I’m especially happy because I think this represents a small step forward. Over the last few days I’ve been doing a lot more drawing. Initial experiments with ‘right brain’ perception seem
Drawing Grids
A handy little aid to planning out a drawing These handy little tools are an extension of the view finder framer I use to decide on a composition.It’s just thread wrapped round a card frame, takes half an hour to make one. You holdit out in front of you between you and the subject, parallel
Right Brain Drawing
A bit of fun with W. B. Yeats Look at this picture. What do you see? Abstract shapes or can you see arepresentation of something you know from the real world? I know what it represents,so it’s impossible now for me to see it fresh. I’m guessing you’ve probably twigged it too. If you have
Old Master Drawings Copied Upside Down
30th November 2005 Click here for an enlargement Right brain upside down old masters. Clockwise from top left on first drawing:Fragonard, Rubens, Rembrandt, John Singer-Sargent, Raphael Sanzio. These were all copied upside down, trying to develop right-brain,spatial perception. The ones which look right way up are actuallyupside-down. back to Old Master Copies
Old Master Drawings Upside Down
30th November 2005 back to Old Master Copies
Left Brain – Right Brain
What I mean by ‘learning to see’ Today I bought a book called ‘Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain’. Drawing has been occupying mythoughts more the last few days while I haven’t been painting. I stopped in the bookshop and saw this book,and was reminded of something I came across yesterday about right
Left Eye – Right Eye
How subjective is colour? I’ve been busy with client work the last few days so no painting, but last night I finally caught up so thismorning I’m recovering and sitting here thinking about colour. I was just looking out of the window. Its a nice morning, bright and cold with some high cloud. I wasthinking
Cantaloupe Melon
This one was a bit of an experiment, which meant I had to depart from the method a bit. Its great having a set procedure to follow, but I think you need to be flexible with it if the circumstances demand it. This was one of those times. Recently I’ve taken to doing a lot
Three Small Plum Tomatoes
22nd November 2005 This was a quick study, completed in just over an hour. I didn’t have a lot of choice about that since I didn’t start it until 14:00 and the light starts to fade now around 15:30. Last night I was cooking a moussaka with these little plum tomatoes, and since they were