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Tomatoes
I have always been impressed by those stylised pictures where very few colours or tones are used to create very striking images – often used for example in period posters. It occurred to me when I first started playing with drawing apps on the computer that they would be an ideal medium in which to…
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New Boots
An unexpected side-effect of the pandemic lockdown was that we started walking a lot. Well there wasn’t much else we were allowed to do outdoors and we are lucky enough to live only a few minutes from a range of hills covered in walking paths. Of course, if you start walking a lot there comes…
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A Perspective on Stowe
Stowe House sits in the middle of the equally magnificent Stowe Gardens, now run by the National Trust. The house itself contains a school about which regretably I know very little – which I’m sure is my loss rather than theirs! However, I do know that the gardens and buildings of Stowe offer many amazing…
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A Fresh Face
I always feel that drawing a face presents a type of double jeapody. Not only is there an expectation that the face will look real, there is often an equally strong requirement that the drawing actually looks like the person being drawn! This desire for a convincing likeness makes drawing well know personalities particularly challenging,…
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Rambling Rose
We bought this rose at a local garden fete, with a warning from the stall holder that this plant was “a bit of a thug”! I think it is a “Rambling Rector” – a variety more formally described as having “very vigorous growth” and as being “very thorny”. At the moment I drew this rose…
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A Gate in York
York has many streets which are called gates – and this is a drawing of one of them. This gate is straighter than many, although perhaps not quite as straight as I have drawn it. I think too that there are often many more people walking down this street – perhaps everyone is elsewhere because…
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Daffodil
Anyone remember the Spring of 2020? There were daffodils around of course, but there was also a deadly new disease apparently running rampant around the world. This particular flower was drawn a few days before we were all “locked down”, but at a time when we were already becoming wary of getting too close to…
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Battle Undercroft
Battle is of course famous as being the place where “William the Bastard” (or “Guillaume le Batard” as he was known back home) became “William the Conqueror” by beating the incumbent king Harold Godwinson. An abbey was subsequently built to mark the spot and the occasion, the remains of which are still standing. This particular…
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Public Transport
These two images started out as an exercise in drawing silhouettes, so each head in view is different in some way (although you will probably need to zoom in to the picture to be able to see this). However, in the end they turned into what I fondly imagine to be typical commuting scenes –…
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Lilies
This was the first drawing that I did after I joined a local art group, pretending that I knew what I was doing with a drawing pen and a nice blank sheet of white paper! The pressure of that moment must have helped as in the end the flowers seem quite easily recognisable.
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Polesden Lacey
Well, actually this is a view looking in from outside the fence. However, with the trees full of leaves, there is not much of the estate to be seen here …
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A Bridge Over The River Kwai
No – this is not THAT bridge! The original bridge was both built at enormous cost to the prisoners conscripted to construct it and then destroyed by bombing during the Second World War. This bridge was built after the war, but of course is now often visited by those coming to understand and pay tribute…
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