Drawing App.
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Bruges – Steenstraat
Here is another picture of Bruges, this one of a baroque Flemish building that is now a clothes shop on Steenstraat. I have attempted a degree of what I think is called geometric abstraction – and whilst the amount of abstraction that I have achieved is rather limited, nevertheless the overall result is quite pleasing,…
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Art Deco II
Just as I had expected, having discovered how well suited the vector graphics app is to producing Art Deco patterns, there is no stopping me! Here is a second one, somewhat similar to the first in tone, albeit with an expanded colour palette. I also think I have managed to get a few more of…
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Art Deco
Given how much I like Art Deco, it is surprising that I haven’t tried something like this before. Well in fact I did try something like this a few days ago using paint, but I currently lack either the skill or the technique to get the lines anywhere near straight enough. On the other hand,…
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Back Door
I’m really not sure about this one! The original pen drawing was done in the back garden of a cottage in Longtown, more or less an exercise in capturing perspective and different textures. So far, so good – except that the original drawing is rather pedestrian. Therefore, as I have already done with other so-so…
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Dunster Yarn Market
Just down the hill from Dunster Castle is the village, which contains a very fine 17th century Yarn Market. Given the weather that we had when we first arrived in Dunster I can only imagine this building was erected primarily to keep the cloth in the market dry! The angles of this building seemed well…
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Treeangle
With apologies for the dreadful pun in the title – here is a further development of the technique that was used for the Trencadís(h) post. Here it is used to depict a type of “tree of life” image. In keeping with the style of trencadis, this picture is composed of triangles representing ceramic shards, and…
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Trencadís(h)
Here is something slightly different, inspired by a recent visit to the Park Güell and various modernist buildings in Barcelona, where Gaudi created a lot of mosaics using ceramic shards. This drawing is not exactly a piece of “trencadís” however, as no physical shards of glazed ceramic were used. Rather it was simply drawn as…
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Bruges – Heilige Geeststraat
I don’t recall ever seeing a road in the UK named “Holy Ghost Street” – nor indeed anywhere else in my travels. However, rather than declare this to be an unusual name for a road and assume that this is a particularly Belgian thing, I am quite willing to admit that perhaps I just have…
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Mondrian-esque Family Tree
Another activity with which I while away my hours is genealogy. So it is that, during a moment when my mind was idling (there are of course many such moments!), I came up with the idea of a colour based family tree – that is a relationship chart where the colour of a child would…
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Time to Peel
Here is another re-used (or if you prefer “re-purposed”) quick sketch from the lock-down era, intended if nothing else to burnish my credentials as an eco-artist! This one was originally a simple pencil sketch of a potato peeler, which through the magic of a drawing app is now the hour hand on a kitchen(?) clock.…
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BMW Graffiti
This is my first attempt at graffiti, albeit a piece of socially responsible virtual graffiti on the photo of a wall! The car that I have drawn is in the BMW Museum in Munich, and to my somewhat aged eyes is the absolute classic BMW design – the way that I remember BMW cars looking…
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Summerhouse & Shelter
I have already commented on the bad weather we had during our recent visit to Ichi-Coo Park. Early that afternoon we experienced a really heavy downpour, so I took refuge in a summerhouse which was the driest place I could find, and started drawing on the only “waterproof” pad that I had – my iPad!…
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