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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Free Notes
Whilst listening to jazz I have often wondered how one might draw this type of music, if indeed such a question even really makes any sense. I have seen many pictures showing musicians playing their instruments, sometimes with musical notes floating through the air. Sometimes instead these musical pictures are just of typical jazz instruments,…
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Dark Sky
The synoptic gospel accounts of the day of Jesus’ crucifixion tell us that “from noon until three in the afternoon, darkness came over all the land”. Ignoring issues about whether this darkness was figurative or real (and if the later then how it was caused), this celestial gloom clearly adds to the drama of the…
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Face – in many colours
Not quite sure what this – best perhaps to think of it as an experiment! Quite good fun to draw though, and easy on the eye, so might try something similar again …
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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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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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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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