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Monthly Archives: January 2012
WATERWAYS
I love the challenge of featuring water in my coloured pencil art. Over the years and through several styles I have expressed water in many stages from still and placid to fast moving. As with all 2D art it’s all … Continue reading
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Tagged angled strokes, coloured pencil, horizontal strokes, illusion, moving water, placid, quiet, sea, tumbling, water, waves
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DIGITAL ART
The other day while I was looking through my files on my MacBook Pro, I came across the image that is today’s featured artwork. I know I have posted this digital drawing before, but I thought it deserved an encore … Continue reading
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Tagged art competition, art humour, digital art, digital drawing, MacBook Pro, smoked salmon
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The KISS Principle
The older I get, the more I appreciate the simple things in life and art. In my early days, my art was about detail. Most of my paintings were full of information. Occasionally I would focus on a single subject, … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract ideas, coloured pencil painting, complicated, detail, information, intimacy, KISS Principle, paintings, simple
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STYLE
Every serious artist (I hope) wants to express their art in their own unique way. It often takes years to develop a personal way of ‘seeing’. Experimentation, curiosity and discovery go hand in hand as they take on their journey … Continue reading
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Tagged art style, coloured pencil, drawing, outlines, personal style, Pointillism, spontaneous, way of seeing
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ENAMEL MUG
Most of us live in a complicated world, because we choose to live complicated lives. Some buck the trend others fight it, while the rest just ‘get on with it’. There are similar parallels in art. Some artists choose to … Continue reading
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Tagged character, coloured pencils, complicated, decay, detail, enamel mug, intimate, old age, rust, single objects, weathering
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LATEST DRAWING: UPDATE
It hasn’t taken me long to get to the ‘touch-up’ stage of my latest drawing. The Canson TEX paper I’m working on isn’t as gritty as the Colourfix paper I have used before, and it readily accepts my Prismacolor pencils. … Continue reading
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Tagged Canson TEX paper, detail, drawing, gritty surface, Prismacolors, touch-up stage, working quickly
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