‘Bed Time Story 5’ 30 x 42 cm (approx 12″x16″) Graphite & grey ink ©the artist NFS Lily is getting better & family life is getting back to normal. m-l is so good at getting them into the story – look & see how lili is pointing to thepage of the bok. Her mind is…
Category: Drawings
Drawings, quick sketches, elaborate drawings, scribbles, gesture drawings, composition works in progress; finished drawings, portraits, pencil, sanguine, conté, graphite
Lily 13-01-09
‘Lily – 13/01/09’ graphite A5 sketchbook © The Artist. NFS Such a brave two year old, just getting over a serious bout of gastro-enteritius. Hospitalised but now getting better.
Bedtime Story 4
‘Bedtime Story 4’ Graphite 40 x 40cm (approx 16 x 16 inches). © adam cope Detail He was so much into the story that i think he got a tad worried about the suspense & the thrill of it all … ‘the willing suspense of disbelief’… no?
New Label : French Market Places
GraphiteA5 sketchbook© The Artist. ‘Un producteur’ of traditional pork, reared in the fresh air. Cruelty free. Said his pigs were a bit muddy at the moment but that I could come & draw them in spring time. I ordered a ham for Christmas Day breakfast. There was anglo-french carol singing, beautiful to hear, even if…
Dessin d’un Garde Champêtre – Drawings of French Market Places
‘Le Garde Champêtre de Bergerac, Périgord’ graphite A5 sketchbook © The Artist. OK, new category title ‘FRENCH MARKET PLACES’, which I must update the previous posts in this blog as some of the buskers play in the market places & soome of the portraits are of local farmers selling their wares. So to simplify those…
Vendeur de Pantoufles – Drawings of French Market Places
Detail ‘Vendeur des Pantoufles’ graphite doublespread A5 sketchbook ©The Artist. This bedroom slipper salesman caught my eye in the market today. Am I going mad? Has the winter wet & grey season driven out my plein-airist, colourist poetic landscape urges?Slippers have the same connotations in France as elsewhere. Someone who is ‘Pantouflé’, speaking familarly, is…
Marché d’Issigeac en Dordogne
‘Venduer des Chanterelles Jaunes’ A5 sketchbook – graphite © adam cope ‘Téléthon … Allez les Crêpes’ A5 sketchbook – graphite © adam cope Marché d’Issigeac en Dordogne Fund raising event in Issigeac. Crêpes on a cold & frosty morning. A man selling yellow mushroooms from the Landes, by the sea where it has not frosted.…
Hardtimes in Rural French Markets
‘Vendeur du Miel’ Graphite A5 sketchbook © adam cope Poverty & not spending in Rural French Markets Freezing morning in Castillonnès market. Drew this (cold) seller of honey. The writting says ‘Tarif’. Hand-made products in rural French markets can be pricey. Nobody was buying his honey. When I finished sketching him, I went over to…
Norbert Aujoulat dessiné dans la style de la Grotte de Cussac
‘Norbert Aujoulat dessiné dans la style du Grotte de Cussac’ graphite A5 sketchbook © The Artist. ‘Norbert Aujoulat dessiné dans la style du Grotte de Cussac’ As portraits, my drawings don’t really resemble Dr.Aujoulat but, if you’ll excuse the mammoth pun, they’re OK as ‘on the hoof’ sketches…. ‘dans lou cochon, tout est bon ….…
Sketches of a Wedding
A5 sketchbook pencil’Sur la Vif’ or ‘On the Hoof’ Sketches of a Wedding Sketches A5 ink brush pen A lovely wedding in the vines. Lots of cameras, so here’s one of yours truly. Note the champagne. [button color=”green” size=”medium” align=”center” link=”https://www.artists-atelier.com//piantings/music”]more gesture drawings of musicians[/button]
