Sunday, 6 March 2011

Lindisfarne 2011

Pencil and pastel studies of Lindisfarne, Northumberland for a class demonstration on landscape painting.





Monday, 27 December 2010

Untitled Event Painting (Study) 2010

Pencil, watercolour, graphite on cartridge paper. A new version of the "event series" started in the early 1980's. Unfinished:
Full painting (study) 2010


Left hand detail with main characters dancing


Right hand detail with Boucher garland in white

Thursday, 2 December 2010

They said it would keep snowing...

and it did. Whitley Bay, November 2010, walking from the Rendezvous Cafe back to the Spanish City.





Friday, 12 November 2010

Charcoal ground overlaid with colour pastel

I teach several art classes in Gateshead. Here are some small sketches in charcoal and pastel used to demonstrate to my class of adult learners. I like the way a charcoal ground mixes the overlaid colour in random ways forcing you to be much more intuitive.