Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
20/03/2013
10/01/2013
22/02/2012
20/02/2012
03/09/2011
Light and stone
Both drawings watercolour, top one with a touch of watercolour pencil, in Seawhite of Brighton Sketchbook.
18/07/2011
20/05/2011
28/01/2011
20/01/2011
15/01/2011
05/01/2011
Colours
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I met a very young woman on my beachside walk this morning, with a small puppy and four children, all delightful. The puppy was a Jack Russell, the children were three white, one (adopted) little black girl. The woman and her husband are missionaries from Tennessee. I was impressed by her kindness and openness and tranquility, and the children's friendliness: so many people are either hostile to, or suspicious of, a person whose camera lens cap has been removed. The dog was a darling too. |
29/12/2010
The other side
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The edge of the township of Masiphumelele, very close to the beach villages of Kommetjie and Noordhoek in the Cape. According to Wikipedia, it has approximately 26000 inhabitants. Ameneties are scarce and 30-40% of the inhabitants are infected with HIV/Aids. I'm hesitant about whether to even post this caption, but as photographs tends to objectify and aestheticise, I will risk sounding like an armchair liberal. |
19/11/2010
Grey day, grey city.
Whereas our nearest town, Stamford (5 miles away) is beautiful and filled with green spaces and Georgian stone architecture, our nearest city - Peterborough - is quite grim and grey, filled with lots of shops and malls that lose their allure to me after about five minutes of enthusiasm at the possible benefits of shopping in a city. There's a wonderful cathedral, though, and I did these drawings at the point where the cathedral close meets the shopping precinct.
Brush markers (and watercolour washes in the first two) in untitled sketchbook.
15/11/2010
Buildings in Tel Aviv
More drawings from my photographs.
Brush marker 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
6 November
Brush markers in untitled sketchbook.
Brush markers and watercolours in untitled sketchbook.
10/11/2010
08/11/2010
07/11/2010
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