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Sunflowers, Irises and Sensory Gardens
Going full Van Gogh with this selection – I mean me? Painting Sunflowers and Irises? With my VG Standom? As i found they aren’t easy to paint or draw, but the real reason for painting and drawing these is that The Friends of Queen Promenade have stepped up and planted some amazing things on Queen’s…
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Paint Stick Lightfast Tests – Over A Year On
Back at the end of April and early May last year I started the lightfastness tests of various paint stick makes – Little Brian, Kwik Stix and my original brand, KingArt. My laziness is your benefit, because over a year on they’ve been well blasted with UV in the window, and the results are surprising.…
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Portraits At The Pub 47: Angela and Martin
My friend Martin who is a regular at the is getting married next week, and so his fiancée Angela posed for us at Portraits At The Pub and they did a pose together at the end. It’s always nerve-wracking to draw someone you know – even more nerve-wracking to draw their betrothed, talk about pressure!…
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One Man and Three Boats
Actually much more than three boats, but One Man and 36 Boats (yes I counted them!) doesn’t really sound like the infamous Jerome K Jerome book that was set here. I’ve not done a boat river round-up for a while, but unusually I have been working along the river, given I haven’t headed for more…
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Portraits At The Pub 45: Daisy
Not so sure of the portraits from this session – it’s always difficult to get a good likeness, but then again it’s not always about likeness either – my favourite from this session looks nothing like Daisy – the technical drawing featured – she actually looked more like the fountain pen drawing on the right…
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Cranes of Kingston Part 2
More cranes new and old – there seems to be five now hovering over Kingston, whereas as you can see from these older drawings from 2022 there only used to be one, then three. They are multiplying! It’s like the Tripods in construction form….Surprised I didn’t post the Woody’s drawing here, that was a good…