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Frame or Border
Another doodle. This one started in my head as a kind of Russian doll arrangement of picture frame within picture frame within picture frame etc … To start with things were quite easy. Working outside in, the starting point is a wall, then a frame, then a mount, then a … eventually I decided on…
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Croquet
This sport occupies quite a bit of what might otherwise be my spare time, so I suppose it is inevitable that I would eventually draw or paint a game. This particular painting is based very loosely on a photo taken during a recent match at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon,…
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Surviving a Drought?
This image is a nonsense of course, not only because waterlilies would never survive these conditions nor “float” on the dried lakebed, but also because the composition was conceived during a long period of hot and dry weather (yes – even in England we have at times too much sun!) but drawn and painted as…
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Clcok Faec
This started out as a simple six-fold symmetrical doodle, but before long it had turned into an antique clock face. At that point it seemed more interesting to mix the numbers up a bit and set the hands to an impossible position. Then I realised that couldn’t tell which hand was which …
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Blue Man
I have mentioned before (and will no doubt mention again!) the jeopardy inherent in producing a portrait, in that the face not only has to look normal, it also has to resemble the portrait’s subject. This particular example is kind of middling in that respect. It looks somewhat like the real face, but is probably…
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Weave
So, this is an example of what happens when I really doodle. It starts out as a perfect pattern, but then somehow it screws up – in this case literally! I’m not sure whether this image offers a window into the dark recesses of my psyche or whether instead it is merely the result of…
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Bunting
This is a view along Church Street in Hereford, looking towards the cathedral, which is where I spotted this bunting whilst visiting the city in early June. I’m not really sure why the bunting was up – there had been celebrations for the 80th anniversary of VE Day a few weeks earlier, so maybe the…
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Iron Gates
My art group made another visit to Ichi-Coo Park today – this time in glorious sunshine! Here is one of the sketches that I made there this afternoon – this one done on the iPad using the “charcoal” drawing tool. I hadn’t realised at the time that I had left the colour set to a…
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Tiles
I have always been rather taken with these symmetrical patterned tiles. I first became aware of them in Morocco, so initially thought of them as “Moroccan” tiles, but then I saw them in Spain as well, so switched to the adjective “Moorish”. More recently I have seen similar tiles in many other countries bordering the…
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Classical Ambience
I recently attended a lunch at Hylands House near Chelmsford in Essex. Apart from the enjoying the event itself, I was rather curious to see the interior of a house that I first new as a near ruin when I was a child, but which is now returned to something close to what I presume…
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Flowers at Wisley – Again
There really are an awful lot of flowers at Wisley, so I don’t feel too bad about having another go at painting some of them. The Royal Horticultural Society have some stunning formal flowerbeds in their garden at the moment, but just like last time I have chosen to paint some of their “wild” flowers…
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Lily
I saw this rather handsome plant in a local garden centre whilst looking for something else entirely, so naturally I bought the specimen and it is now trying to survive (and I hope thrive!) in my garden. It is a rather different shape to the lilies that I drew many years ago when I first…
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