Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to rearrange your sense of reality. (The Power of Art, Simon Schama)
Posted on Sunday, 30 October
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Posted on Tuesday, 19 July
Taste.
Posted on Tuesday, 19 July
Paint in progress.
Posted on Tuesday, 19 July
Under drawing complete. aquarelle pencil, brown. Again not black as wanted skin tone, soft moving shape not a graphic and harsh line.
Posted on Tuesday, 19 July
Beg.
Posted on Tuesday, 19 July
Prey.
Posted on Tuesday, 19 July
From those sketches i decided to push it as far as i could. Being the last week i want something to test me and think differently, something that may signal the direction of where my drawings may be going. So getting rid of all frames, all formalities, concentrating on the flat and paper, as well as texture, i decided to draw straight onto the wall.
Posted on Friday, 8 July
New sketches. When producing these i was aware that i wanted something that was more about limbs and flesh, rather then faces and eyes. again in aquarelle pencil a golden/green tone, aware of this kind of faded but grandeur colour.
Posted on Friday, 8 July
Strasbourg part 2
Inside the Dom/Cathedral. Colour. stain glass. line work. merging forms.
Posted on Friday, 8 July
Strasbourg part 1
Outside the Dom/Cathedral. Loved the actual garagolyes and animals used as garagolyes-again another church that uses animals. I am unsure whether these are to protect, scare etc. The gothic element is enchanting.
Posted on Friday, 8 July
appenweier-stuck here for about two hours on the way to Strasbourg, it had a few interesting aspects, apparently being two.
Posted on Wednesday, 6 July
Colmar/Issenheim alter piece, Grunewald part 2.
You can tell which alter was my favourite!
