And here they are together: See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold and Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer. I couldn't decide whether to have...
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Hear The Wind, Smell The Reindeer
And here's the other half of the diptych. The drawings on the back are Hear The Wind and Smell The Reindeer. This one was painted in parallel...
See The Winter, Taste The Snow, Feel The Cold
And here we are at stage 2 of the big project. After I Am The Eye In The Sky was such a big success almost five years ago on a glass fridge shelf...
Smell The Reindeer
And finally we have the fifth sense: smell. With room for a second drawing on my third sheet of paper, I ended up having two attempts at the...
See The Winter
Day four of the big September project and it's been a fast one. This is a charcoal drawing of my right eye. I expected the eye to be the most...
Feel The Cold
Here's the third of my senses. It's my hand, signifying touch. Like all the other senses, this is in charcoal. Most of it is with charcoal...
Taste The Snow
Next up in the five senses is taste. Once again, this is in charcoal, almost entirely with the pencils but with a likely bit of XL block in...
Hear The Wind
September's starting off with a big project that will take at least a week to complete, maybe two. It's going to start with five charcoal drawings...
The Art Of Portraiture, Stephen Bauman – Book Review
So here's the last of my four arty birthday books. I've saved this one to the end because there's something about it that suggests it's going to be...
Temple of Saturn, Rome
Number two son just announced he's off with some mates to Bremen, Split and Rome so I'm using this as an excuse to get in some much needed...
Carlo Ancelotti
Back into my comfort zone today with a posterised portrait using the Shire colours, following my usual process. This is Carlo Ancelotti, one of...
David Bellamy’s Arabian Light- Book Review
Time for another book review and it’s David Bellamy's second travelogue book. I read and reviewed Arctic Light a while back and so much of what I...
BethR In Charcoal
Time to have another go at a charcoal figure and to put Anthony Ryder's lessons to use. They worked last weekend, so why not keep going? Today's...
Blobby Blobby Blobby
I've been told I need to do some more fish paintings. And that fish in the posterised trippy scheme work better than fish in the posterised tundra...
Straight Ahead
A soft pastel painting today, the first in over a month. It seems I'm always a bit behind on stying in practice at everything but that's my fault...
AnaIv In Charcoal
After reading Anthony Ryder's book, I was keen to put some of his ideas into practice as soon as possible, so I've been doing some figure drawing...
The Artist’s Complete Guide To Figure Drawing, Anthony Ryder – Book Review
I’ve just finished the second of the four books I got for my birthday and am ready to review it now. I'm taking my time over these books, reading...
Here He Comes
Tuesday's angelfish went so well that I thought I'd have mother go at a camouflaged fish in posterised style. This could end up becoming a series...
Sweet Angel
Number one son was asking whether I’d ever painted a fish. I think he was hoping to be able to give a fish painting as a present for two of his...
Take You Me For A Sponge?
Something different today, a watercolour painting painted mainly using sponges. It's a view in Queendown Warren, chosen for the many layers of...