Brush markers and watercolour in untitled sketchbook.
13/11/2010
Not intentionally picturesque
These are still drawings from photographs I took in Israel. I really enjoy drawing things that are fairly haphazard and not intentionally picturesque. Drawing from photographs is very different from drawing from life as you're presented with something that is already a mediation, an abstraction. I suppose some purists would think of it as cheating, but I don't. But it often – though not always for me, I notice – produces a different kind of drawing, a slightly more abstract line and maybe a bit less hairiness or wiriness in the mark making.
Brush markers and watercolours in untitled sketchbook.
12/11/2010
7 November, Kato
Sometimes, the pages of my sketchbook look more like shopping lists and scribbles than drawings.
Brush markers (and a touch of watercolour) in untitled sketchbook.
6 November
Brush markers in untitled sketchbook.
Brush markers and watercolours in untitled sketchbook.
11/11/2010
10/11/2010
5 November, Israel
Brush markers and watercolours in untitled sketchbook.
Gouache and brush markers in untitled notebook.
Kabakov or Beuys?
Seeing things through the lens of contemporary art makes every improvised place rich with connotation, an installation. In this photo, Kabakov or Beuys would you say? Or anyone else spring to mind? It's the inauspicious entrance to what is purportedly David's tomb in Jerusalem!
09/11/2010
08/11/2010
07/11/2010
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