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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 brush marker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brush marker. Show all posts

03/02/2011

Don't dawdle, it's hot!

Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.




Bathers


Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.




Penguins on the beach

I'm still engaged in the endless and boring task of scanning in drawings, which I suppose is a good thing, since I haven't had time to make any drawings over the past week or so.



Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.




01/02/2011

This five-year old boy directed and performed in a play in the garden on new year's day... The props were interesting, especially a pair of patterned underpants used as a hat.
Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.




30/01/2011

Same view, different times

Well, same-ish view, Kommetjie beach from a particular bench on the boardwalk for the last three, and actually on the beach in the first spread. I've always loved the almost-repetition of the almost-the-same. It's the underlying minimalism of my not very minimalist work...


Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.



Brush markers and watercolour in Windsor and Newton spiral-bound sketchbook.



29/01/2011

Chilling, I think they call it.

Still scanning sketchbooks from South Africa. The scanning of double page spreads of this square sketchbook involves scanning each page separately and then seaming them together on Photoshop - takes rather longer than the zippy face-down-scan-and-blog approach you can take with Moleskines or A4 spiral-bound pads that fit perfectly onto the scanner!


Brush markers (and in the last spread, a touch of watercolour) in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook. 




Dogs on the beach


Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.




27/01/2011

Landscape: Kommetjie

At this rate it will take me a month to scan in the sketchbook drawings I made in South Africa, but never mind!
Brush markers and watercolour in Windsor and Newton spiral bound pad.



26/01/2011

Christmas band

It was wonderful arriving in Kommetjie, near Cape Town, on Christmas day, and being welcomed by a street band. Fabulous bands performing in the streets on Christmas day constitute a traditional custom for the so-called Cape coloureds, descendents of Malay and other slave labourers imported into the Cape by Dutch settlers in the seventeenth century. Afrikaans speaking, they are a significant, if not predominant, population group in the Western Cape today. I included a photograph of the beautiful girls marching ahead of the band under the Maverick photograph here.
Brush markers and pencil crayon in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.

Brush markers in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
Brush markers and collaged envelope in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.




07/01/2011

Sketchbook

I'm missing my scanner! This drawing from a few days ago. For the spread, see here.
Brush pens and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.




18/12/2010

Snug

I know it's not a very manly look, but Kato was shivering for a while. Note: that was at home - he doesn't go into the outside world as Cardy Man - there, he is feral beast (or a bit of a lad, actually)!

Brush markers and watercolours in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.