Category Archives: drawing

Two Figs and two art works

This post is about moving from drawing to painting using an example. I did a still life drawing of two figs on a plate, with ink and watercolour.  it is tightly cropped to dimension the space, similar to the cropping … Continue reading

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Birds in the aviary

A friend has an aviary and I drew some aspects while visiting recently:

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Xmas card 2016

I thought you’d like to see this year’s card, with a large amount of pasted paper (a cubist technique with the lovely name of papier colle) and ink and wash. The photo is a bit washed as the original has … Continue reading

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Giraffe nibbling at the zoo

At the Melbourne zoo recently for the xmas party, and saw a Giraffe eating.  So a pencil sketch.      

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