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Museum Drawings

Support Blog, Museum Drawings, Museum Musings 9th March 201525th March 2015

You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 -1867)

I draw in museums, studying master works, sometimes over days, to try and absorb and learn what is being revealed to me. This traditional has a venerable history.

Portraits

Support Blog, Inspiration, Methods and Materials, Portraits 9th March 201522nd December 2015

“I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.”

Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011)

Trying to capture the inner world of a person in a drawing. Is this even possible?

Work is for sale unless in a private collection (PC). Please inquire here.

Figures

Support Blog, Figures, Inspiration, Methods and Materials 9th March 201522nd December 2015

These drawings are from life, and are created over days. They are coloured pencil and white charcoal on a toned Stonehenge paper, and they are mostly 29cm x 38cm or 11″ x 15″, although some are smaller. Read more