‘Titulaire & Suppléant’ 2008 Pencil A5 sketchbook © The Artist. Remembering that this is a painting blog with writing & not a writing blog…. let’s keep the politics brief. There are many better places to read about politics than in a painting blog. Local elections in rural sw france. The ‘communal’ (parish) & the ‘cantonial’…
Category: Portraits
Portraits in pencil & sanguine. Drawing & studies of faces & portraits in watercolour & oi painting. Portraits of young children.
GOLD STAR
One of my winter jobs is to wash my painting hat. That’s the hat that’s become something of a ‘signature’. You can see me wearing it in my blogger profile photograph. But I don’t always get first turn to wear it however. Here it’s the ‘gold star’ kid whose wearing it…
Markets in Dordogne – Inflation in France
‘Cantal 43,95 €uros le Kilo’ 2008 A5 pencil © The Artist. Markets in Dordogne Cold morning in Issigeac marché, everyone dressed up against the chilly wind. Hats ‘de rigor’. This market stall owner dresssed up with a ‘chimney-stack’ type hat & ‘handle bar’ moustache. Smiling. These winter off-season markets are friendly events 🙂 Inflation in…
drawing of a head
detail A3 pencil © Adam Cope NFS quiet attention listening looking
ML – 16/1/08
‘ML – 16/1/08’ A3 © adam cope Detail i preferred silence, but google preferred metas….
Thoughts without a Thinker
‘Self 5 (why me?)’ Wet on wet Watercolour. 26 x 33cm © The Artist. I was pretty upset here… the puddles of granulating pigment floating & eddying on the page like tears…i’m not being very flattering to myself am i? But that’s how i felt when I painted it. Indeed painting it was a way…
Val – Christmas Eve
‘Val – Christmas Eve’ graphite pencil, A3 sheet © The Artist. Television helps to turn the necessary blind eye, so that Santa can come down the chimney… The ‘likeness’ part of a portrait. I feel there’s something not quite right about this drawing. The likeness isn’t right. Also, he looks , well, abit deformed as…
Val 19/12/07
Graphite Pencil A3 sheet © The Artist. detail Another drawing with not a good enough likeness. The profile is such a crucial line. The morning after having drawn V. during his evening session of telly watching, I revised this line as I was unhappy with the form of the nose & the bridge through to…
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… ).
Val -6/10/07
watercolour- quarter sheet approx. © The Artist.