At the gate at Chania airport, we eat cheese pies, and I do sketches of the other people.
Category: People
Pictures of people I know, strangers on trains, other people, invented people…
Exercises – quick sketches
Here are some very quick pencil sketches.
It’s a challenge to try to make a drawing in 45 seconds – but somehow liberating. The artist has to loosen up and concentrate, both at the same time. As does the Model.
Toe Touch
Plank
Blocks
Stretch
Stretch
John studying Spanish
At Fisherman’s cottage, Kalami , Crete
Pencil sketch, 30min.
Two of us
Etching, made at East London Printmakers.
Platform 16, Paddington Station
Etching in Charbonnel Doux ink, on copper plate using aquatint.
Printed at East London Printmakers. Thank you to Oscar for the advice on aquatint.
Rugby Players
Woodcut is such a great medium. It’s satisfying to cut the wood with the sharp tools. The character of woodcut allows approximation, and fast working. There’s lots that’s not quite right about this image, but I am reluctant to mess around with the blocks. I feel that the woodcut has its own language and I let it be.
Two blocks, postcard size about 6inches by 4inches, printed with Schminke Aqua Liniprint ink using the ancient Albion Press at East London Printmakers.
After an original photograph in the Guardian newspaper 19 December 2015, by David Davies, under the headline:
“Carter’s precision thwarts Saints’ revenge bid”.
Northampton 9
Racing 92 9
The caption to the photograph reads:
“Racing’s Dan Carter attempts to flick a pass out of the back of his hand before Northampton’s Mike Hayward can drag the New Zealander to the ground”
Etching: End of the week
Soft and hard ground etching on copper plate, done at East London Printmakers. 6″x4″
