A5 sketchbook everybody had to be drawn! every child wanted a drawing of herself…it was fun, i enjoyed it.. happy
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Marine & her Mother Drawing
i like something about this one… something about the group shape beiing bound together to make one shape, not two…cute kid, Marine, no? yes!
Drawings of Painters Painting
Sunny weather brings the painters out ‘en plein air’…. Here’s some sketches from a recent day of teaching. I greatly enjoy these painting days with such good company, a honour to teach & to watch other painter’s creativity & learning open like the new spring leaves to the sun light. Graphite, A5 Sketchbook
Hieratic vs.Gestural Drawing Styles – Zadkine
‘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…
Drawing of Mother & Child
‘Mother & Child’ Charcoal 40 x 40 cm © The Artist I recently made the acquitance of the baby of some friends, a charming little soul of five months. Took me back to when my own children were babies, some five & three years ago. Time flies! ‘Tailles 16 – 21’ 2007 Oil on Panel…
Karst Landscape – finished state
large oil painting… The bright spring sunlight has returned. Seeing it again gave me the prompt that I needed to finish off this large oil canvas fom last year. Sometimes a painting needs a year or two (even more sometimes) before it arrives at completion. See the work in progress & some commentary…
Leonardo Da Vinci : Rocky Landscape Studies in Pen & Ink
LEONARDO DA VINCI ‘Study of a Tuscan Landscape – Val d’Arno’ 1473 Pen & Ink, nib on vellum Approx 15 x 22 cm Uffizi Museum LEONARDO DA VINCI ‘Study of a Ravine in a Rocky Landscape’ C.1486 Pen & Ink, nib on vellum Approx 22 x 15 cm Windsor Leoni Volume Been looking again at…
Ditypch ‘Mistletoe’ – Parallax in Landscape art
‘Misteltoe’ Ditypch Oil on two canvas each 64 x 55 cm (approx 21,5 x 25 inches) © adam cope “Here, by the riverside, the motifs multiply, the same subject seen from different angle offers a subject for study of the greatest interest, and so varied that iI think I can keep myself busy for months…
Carnival à Castillonnès
‘Val diguisé comme un sanglier’ Graphite A5 © The Artist. ….et voici Kermasse il y trois ans, déja! Val graphite A5 2007 © the artist
Landscape as the Mirror of the Soul
‘Misteltoe 2’ Part of a diptych Medium Size Oil on Canvas 65 x 54 cm (approx 21 x 26 inches) © adam cope ‘Meaning’ is often conferred to the landscape by us humans. Certainly, us artists find ‘meaning’…. us image makers, who weave our lives in & out of both inner & outer worlds, trying…
