‘Busker – sculptor on the streets’ A5 sketchbook This sculptor carving on the streets on market day (else he’d get moved on by the gendarmes) at Castillonnés. Drawing ‘sur la vif’ moving targets. I’ve observed one tendancy , that which I call my ‘Hieratic Style’, as if an Egpytian or Modernist freeze ‘à la…
Category: Music
Gesture drawings, sketches, doodles & some paintings of musicians. Dancers in art. So there’s jazz and blues and buskers & some classical – enjoy:-)
‘Have a Nice Day’
‘Busker’ A5 sketchbook graphite ©adam cope ‘Have a Nice Day’ This fellow and his dog in the market place, playing the accordian. The sign said “Bonne Journée Avec le Sourire” ( ‘have a nice day – with a smile’). He looked worried. I think the dog was used to his music. ‘Life Insurance’ [button color=”green”…
Orchestra Baroque de Toulouse
‘Orchestra Baroque de Toulouse’ pencil drawing A5 sketchbook © adam cope The last drawing went away from gesture & towards ‘shape’, which was where I was at in Urs Karpartz in Sarlat in July. I call it ‘hierachical’, static , the opposite of the dynamism of getsure drawing. The lok static & frozen. great…
Gestural Drawing of a Musician
‘Stefan’ pencil & ink 32 x 24 cm © Adam Cope My camera & old computer refuse to take properly exposed photos of graphite pencil on white paper. The fine silver tones of graphite along with the delicate yellow wash make sthis virtually impossibl eto phjoto well Fiddley dee and fiddley dumb over the hills…
Urs Karpatz – Dessins des Spectacles à Sarlat
‘Urs-Karpatz’ Ink 25 x 32 cm © Adam Cope Urs-Karpatz came to Sarlat & played their wildly beautiful Tzigane music. You can listen to their music on their web site ! Apparently the lead man & ‘bottle’ (the person who collects the money in the hat & speaks to the public), Dmitri used once to…
Paris-Londres Duo-Musical à Sarlat
In the middle of the crowds, musicians play on the streets. People stop & listen, look, sometimes dream a bit, sometimes soften a bit, sometimes love a bit, sometimes give a bit, sometimes maybe buy a CD, then the people move on. ‘Sophie Read’ pencil 25 x 32 cm © adam cope This year, a…
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…
Drawings of Musicians & Buskers – New Web Page
‘Alison & Her Cello’ Ink & Brush Pen 28 x 38cm (15 x 11 inches). © The Artist. 400 euros alision started off with bruchner & was playing bach cello by the time i drew her here – her back was hurting , she had a very dynamic posture! [button color=”green” size=”medium” align=”center” link=”https://www.artists-atelier.com//piantings/music”]more gesture…
drawing of a violin player
drawing of a violin player pencil A5 sketchbook © The Artist.
Peter ‘Bimbo’ Acock
‘Bimbo Sings the Blues’ dans le temps d’une chanson….five minute pose ink A5 sketchbook © The Artist. ‘Bimbo’, Peter Acock In Bergerac, we are lucky enough to have a musician of outstanding talent. Known locally as ‘Bimbo’, Peter Acock plays the sax (soprano & alto), the clarinette & here his third instrument, the piano &…