Tag: Acrylic

Life drawing at home!

This Royal Drawing School evening was arranged with the Getty Museum! And participants from all over the world. Here are my drawings:

The last was the life model on the right and from a screen version on the left – the life drawing is the one before.

I guess it is easier to draw from the model when it’s on-screen as it’s 2D already but it does feel different to drawing from a photo somehow.

On a day when my feet were two blocks of ice all day I went to the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill to see an exhibition of work by Betty Parsons (1900-1982). I had never heard of her but it’s a nice place and by the sea. There were paintings and assemblages made from ‘acrylic on found wood constructions’. Here are some I liked:

My sort of Kandinsky landscapes!

Market town in Estonia
Garden feature at Arundel Castle
Waterfront at Fowey
  • Market in Estonia (from a photo taken by a friend)
  • water feature at Arundel Castle
  • the waterfront at Fowey.

And my ATCs for our group for this quarter based (loosely!) on Kandinsky’s ‘Thirty’ executed on my iPad using Procreate – each one 2.5 x 3.5 inches and a visual challenge.

Good morning Mr Drogo

A detail from this new painting of a man at a gate. Castle Drogo is an incredibly unlikely building – a 20th century castle overlooking the Teign Gorge in Devon with gardens, views, everything! (The title was too tempting as a steal from Gauguin!)

For sale. 30x30cm, varnished and ready to frame.

Take out window

Harking back to the days when lockdown was sort of over and cafes were re-opening with measures to avoid people entering the premises! Drinks would appear at a hatch and a voice would yell out a number or what the offering was. Not very friendly but it was better than nothing.

Acrylic on panel. For sale.