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Tag: coloured pencils

  • Mythmaking

    Mythmaking

    The importance of drawing. It doesn’t pay to cut the mythmaking short, neither for the colour transitions nor for the line drawings.

  • Putting The Pain in Painting

    Putting The Pain in Painting

    The large format oil pastels drawing culminated in one exploring the colour of the California Poppy, drawing no. 5 in this metre square series. I thoroughly enjoyed making the drawing and I think they were all very successful.

  • To Paint is to Love Again

    To Paint is to Love Again

    Henry Miller wrote ‘To Paint is to Love Again’ (Cambria Book s published by William Webb in California in 1960). It is a book title that has engraved itself on my mind, and today looking at the progress in the studio I felt the first return of the joy

  • Drawing and the Garden

    Drawing and the Garden

    The garden is endlessly fascinating. Even as a student I painted images of a lawn. Now I am working on images of my own garden again. I made a little drawing of grass, which to my surprise seemed to work well, and I have been exploring the imagery further through a series of drawings.

  • Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, and grass is always greener

    Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, and grass is always greener

    Raindrops glistened in the grass after we had a thoroughly violent thunder and rain storm. I decided to draw outside with the oil pastel.

  • California Dreamin’ in colour

    California Dreamin’ in colour

    I had been working with the colour from the peonies I featured previously but had struggled to make anything work. This time the colour flowed off the pencils, nearly working through the page in my sketch book.