‘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?
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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…
301th post – (very) Slow Blogging – Off Season Plein-air
This is the 301st posting. >>>>>>>>>>> SLOW BLOGGING The New York Times has an interesting article about ‘slow blogging’. Basically, it’s Slow Movement meets blogging. Haste, Scorned: Blogging at a Snail’s Pace A Slow Blog Manifesto, written in 2006 by Todd Sieling, a technology consultant from Vancouver, British Columbia, laid out the movement’s tenets.…
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…
Huts 1
Oil on Panel 30 x 40 cm ©adam cope for sale Huts in my village of St.Dizier on the banks of the river Dropt. Hut -o-logy = the study of huttery? Irony is that my current attraction to igenious & idiosynicratic huts, if some delipated, has for it’s background my ongoing worries with the leaking…
E – drawings of a child
‘e’ Graphite A5 sketchbook – detail © The Artist. ‘portrait of e’ Graphite A5 sketchbook – detail © The Artist. “Every child is an artist.” oh yes later on : see this child when she is older
ML & E
‘ML & E’ double-spread A5 sketchbook graphite pencil © adam cope mother & child