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Drawing and photography are central to my practice. Both make pressing - if sometimes fictitious - claims to the capture of lost moments.




Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London. Show all posts

21/08/2011

London

I was quite taken by Marina Grechanik's drawing process at the Lisbon symposium - I'd always loved her drawings, but like Ea Ejersbo, I loved seeing her work - especially the free use of watercolour pencils. So a whole lot of us learned some lessons from Marina! This sketch was done having a coffee at Carluccio's on St Christopher's Place in London - with its very peculiar and pretty useless fountain.

Watercolour pencil in Stillman & Birn sketchbook




14/11/2010

Remembrance Sunday

The quickest scribbles made watching the Remembrance Day parade at the Cenotaph on TV this morning, which I've watched every year since I came to England (there's a whole article in that, but I won't write it now). Elgar's Nimrod near the beginning is where I got undone, but the quivery lines are just because of how quickly the images on the tv change. I think.




Brush markers (with a touch of watercolour in two of them) in untitled sketchbook.




02/05/2010

British Museum

Pencil and pencil crayon in Moleskine sketchbook.

Pencil, pencil crayon and brush marker in Moleskine sketchbook.

Spent a long time at the exhibition of Italian Renaissance drawings feeling both humbled and exalted. I've included the sort of page that I usually leave out of the blog: lots of notes that I may never look at again, or that may serve as aide memoires if I write something about the show, though I did indulge in the catalogue too.


21/04/2010

London yesterday






Brush markers and pencil crayon in Moleskine sketchbook.

All of these are drawings on the hoof, quick sketches made bu the country bumkin in the big city. I spent one and a half sweaty hours on the dentist's chair too - no record of that! I bought some lovely soft-leaded pencil crayons (I love them secondary or tertiary, what one might call mixed colours - an olivey brown, a fleshy pink, a pumpkinny yellow, yet another grey - yum).