Objects
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Pub Sign
These lanterns hang outside many Japanese restaurants and izakaya (居酒屋) – a term often translated as “Japanese pub”. It took a little while for me to realise that these lanterns promised some kind of refreshment close by, but once the penny had dropped they were very useful when looking for something to eat or drink.…
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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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City Lights
The City contains a lot of wrought iron, some of it genuinely Victorian and some just trying to look as if it might be that old! This light is situated in a very new part of London, which I have just discovered is called Bazalgette Embankment. Now Joseph Bazalgette was a Victorian engineer who built…
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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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Bends
The initial idea for this picture came from a rather weak pun on the name of the car manufacturer and the curves of a zig zagging road! That notwithstanding, I had a lot of fun and wasted a good deal of time on the details of the car. It is I think a Mercedes-Benz 220…
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Espresso
I tend to think of espresso as simply being proper coffee – with nothing added to disguise, mute or dilute the taste of the beans. This brand in particular I also associate with being abroad, mainly because I have often been served it on the continent. In fact this make of coffee is also available…
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Hohenschwangau
There is a very pretty castle at Hohenschwangau (and of course another fairytale castle nearby called Neuschwanstein) – but this is the view from the castle, looking out over a swan (schwan to the locals) fountain – one of many swan motifs in the castle grounds. I had intended this to be just a pen…
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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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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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Latte
I often drink my coffees with barely a thought for the barista’s art work on top, but this one caught my eye and was duly immortalised in a photo before I took my first sip. Having become entangled in the creation of a couple of pictures that have become way too complicated and detailed, I…
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Limes
I have become quite partial to limes of late, so a lime being cut open on a chopping board is quite a common sight in our kitchen these days. I was quite keen to paint a lime that looked as if it had the taste I crave from the fruit. In all honesty I think…
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