Tag: Colourful

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:

Year end

Here are some small Minimalist Abstractions done with ink. I can never resist seeing a subject even when my intention is to be abstract!

?Flats
?Postbox
?Train
?Christmas stocking
?Fight

And some pieces I saw which to me look random but are meaningful: at Tate Modern – huge aboriginal paintings glowing with colour. The art of Emily Kam Kngwarray

Klimt on the heels of Kandinsky

I still have suggestions I should follow about Kandinsky but they are for another day. I went onwards with looking at some Klimt works. The course was not as specific and even included some AI artwork to follow. Think I prefer to use the original. I decided to use a little angel that came from a charity shop as the model for my work and made three versions based on different well-known Klimt pictures. Reportedly the works took 3 years but as they are huge and include gold work etc. I am not surprised – it took me long enough to work A4 size!

  • after The Kiss
  • after Tragedy
  • after Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

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.

October 2025

  • Visit to Hastings Contemporary to see their three new exhibitions. Colour in Sophie Barber’s work completely mind-blowing – the illustrated sun over sea does not do it justice.
  • Begun exercises in 2LilOwls course on Kandinsky. Here are my efforts at concentric circles in squares:
  • Now to tackle landscape in Kandinsky colour!

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.