Drawing App.
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Theatre Craft
During the recent hot weather we took our grandchildren to a craft activity at our local library. Partly this was for the distraction of the activity itself, but also I must admit partly because the library is air-conditioned! The craft consisted of colouring in, then cutting out, a toy theatre and some characters, which were…
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Work In Progress
We recently went to a wedding celebration in this handsome building on Wandsworth Common. As with many weddings that I have attended over the years, a very good time was had by all. However, I am always aware that any wedding day is only really the beginning of a (hopefully) life-long journey, building a life…
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Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure where I was trying to go with this picture. However, I drew it anyway because: a – I very much like the window design, b – I thought the statute goes well below the window, c – I thought it might be fun to try out a halo…
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Lantern
These platform lanterns are to be found at many temples in Japan, particularly Buddhist temples. I understand that they are full of symbolism, but that aside they are also visually very interesting, plenty of detail, sturdy yet graceful. Of course the temptation is always to feature the temple itself in any picture, but here I…
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Sakura (桜)
Cherry blossom is appearing all over Japan at the moment, and I’m lucky enough to be seeing it happen. Admittedly most of the blossom I have seen so far has been set against leaden grey skys, so this picture is something of a concept piece – how I imagine the trees would look in front…
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Biker Rabbit
I was just wondering why it is that rabbits always seem to appear out of top hats? 🙂
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Snow
It snowed here today, so I drew this little scene from my head before the inspiration faded along with our thawing snow …
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Emmanuel
Matthew’s gospel refers to the newborn Jesus by the prophetic name Emmanuel, which means “God with us”. A simple yet profound concept, but one that is hard to draw! John’s gospel has a more metaphysical take on the whole nativity story, yet similarly tells us that “the Word [of God] became flesh and dwelt among…
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Bird Tile
These tiles were almost ubiquitous in Britain in the 1970s – my parents house built at the start of that decade had them on the bathroom walls, and the house I am currently living in (coincidentally also built in the early 1970s) still has these tiles on the walls of one bathroom! As I was…
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Torii Gaze
Originally this was intended to show a modern (so manga style) Japanese eye within which the mind behind the eye was reflecting on something ancient, a pagoda for example. By various twists and turns it is now a modern eye literally reflecting the light from a nearby Torii gate. However, if I ignore the frustration…
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Coloured Tiles
Continuing my fascination with the tiles used to decorate Islamic buildings, I find that my curiosity has got the better of me! You see, in nearly every case these tiles seem to be mainly blue in colour – whether for practical or aesthetic reasons I am not sure – so I decided to see what…
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Madrasa
I had previously understood a madrasa to be a place that provided Islamic instruction, but in amongst the potted history of Uzbekistan that I picked up on a recent tour, I have come to realise that throughout much of their history madrasas taught quite a range of subjects, just like the old colleges here in…
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