“Boots on Carruthers, we’re off on a new adventure. Step forward my good man”

It started with the photo taken near Tideswell in Derbyshire. Lovely spot. We went there for a week’s holiday some time ago, it was clear and seemed really bright. I took a number of photos and from that week and have done quite a number of drawings from them. There’s a folder on my desktop called experiments and really they all should be titled thus. All the imagemakng is an experiment, I’ve tried a number over the last six or seven years and more on these landscapes. First came the line drawings. I’m at home with black and white line … Continue reading “Boots on Carruthers, we’re off on a new adventure. Step forward my good man”

The Dalai Lama Monthly Plein Air Drawing & Painting Group.

There are three of us. We meet, we draw and some of us paint. Kit includes a small stool each, mine is the kneeling weeding mat thing I use at home, another uses a sophisticated wing nut heavy folding easel. Pencils, and some pastels are in my kit, as well as a flask of coffee to prolong drawing time. The other two carry water colours. I’ve not done a lot of this open air drawing stuff in the past but have found this rewarding in several ways. Sitting and looking as well as on site drawing is a great way … Continue reading The Dalai Lama Monthly Plein Air Drawing & Painting Group.

Back to school

I was last at art school in the 60s and if my memory serves me right, the art bit was not on the top of my priority list. I was then a recently released internee from a boarding school I was not terribly aware of the world. In my first year at this art school I was allowed to have a go at everything, with a base layer of life drawing. The first time I’d ever seen a naked woman for life drawing, and this one seemed to be having a day off from being a traffic warden. I did … Continue reading Back to school