‘Sauvignon, Boisse’ Watercolour 28 x 38 cm. Quarter Imperial. Whatman 300gms. sold © The Artist. Last parcel of sauvignon yet to be harvested. Autumnal overcast sky, grapey mauve, the landscape mellow with misty stratus, a bluey shade of manganese mauve. Last brave yellow tops of vine leaves. Yellow ochre bottoms heavy with mauvey blue grapes.…
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SAUVIGNON
‘Sauvignon’ Watercolour Quater imperial. 28 X 38 cm. Arches Rough 300 gms © The Artist. SOLD There’s a fete going on the vines. Last week before the sauvignon is vendanged. Botanical design, not botanical drawing.
self 3
A5 watercolour My wife says the resemblance is getting better in this watercolour (but the neck should be thinner. A somewhat worrying comment… ).
les Artistes de la Rue à Issigeac
kazouuuuuuu oouuuuu zoooooo kkaaa zoooo uuuu bucket & thumper, grooveey french lads these A5 sketchbook drawing – pencil & ink Buskers – ‘les artistes de la rue’ – market day at Issigeac.
Val -6/10/07
watercolour- quarter sheet approx. © The Artist.
Self Portrait with a New Haircut
‘Self Portrait with a New Haircut’ Watercolour quarter imperial – arches rough 300gms © The Artist. Pulling faces again… I caught it for an instant whilst painting this portrait. That look of surprise & vanity & curiosity that follows after ahaircut, when you peer cautiously into the mirror to see weither the hair cut is…
My Brillant Career – Immendorf – Self Portrait
‘My Brillant Career’ A5 doodle. Ink © The Artist. my not so brillant career All these recent posts of my retrospective work over the last twenty years has depressed me. Gloomy & disappointment….. so little? To cheer myself up I did a doodle, which started off with a red dot & ended in a…
Figs II
‘Figs II’ 32 x 24 cm. Watercolour. Lana 220 GMS © The Artist. sold I forgot to mention the garlic in the previous recipe. Fry some garlic along in the duck’s breast. When the meat is done (rosy… sometimes I add a splash of raspberry vinager which then turns this recipe into a kind of…
Figs
32 x 28 cm. Watercolour, Lana 220 GMS © The Artist. sold Figs from the garden.Thinking about how to cook them. Vegetarian resolve goes to pot. The South West is the land of THE DUCK. Here’s how I’d do them: Slow fry the duck’s breast in a frying pan, Cook till rosy red but still…
Electric Guitar Busker – ‘L’Assurance Vie’ – life insurance?
‘Busker’ A5 scribble in ink Market day in Bergerac. Busker with electric guitar & vox-box on the pavements. I particularily liked the juxtaposition between him, the artist doubtlessly living in precarity, and the publicity for life insurance. Everything has its price & the price of a life of creativity is often financial insecurity. I thinK…
