Still Life
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Seashell Weekly
Having discovered that I can use my drawing app to “enhance” existing drawings (see Reigate Priory or Brushes for example) I am now tempted to repeat this trick on a great pile of scribbles and sketches that I have accumulated. However, I am just about wise enough to realise that unless my reworking of these…
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Chair, Pouffe and Plant
Many of my recent watercolour paintings have actually been a combination of watercolour and pen. So I decided to try a simple watercolour-only painting, and these three objects were right in front of me at the time! As you will be able to see, some aspects of this painting worked out well, others less so.…
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Brushes
This started as a simple pen drawing of a paint brush – the brush on the top left is the original. This sketch is one of many drawn quickly during a lock-down art group Zoom call. Given how quickly the sketch was done I was quite pleased with it, but even so it was rather…
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Raindrops
The way that raindrops play with light is fascinating and, if you can remember from physics how lenses work, not too difficult to understand. This picture is simply an attempt to get the rain-on-glass effect to look realistic. The rather blurry background to the scene is actually Iceland, a place that provides all sorts of…
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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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