Tag: Arts
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ZEBRA Abstracts
I have been working on this series of Zebra abstracts for a while, spurred on by the purchase of a couple of Hake brushes, 2 1/2 inch and 3 inches. Hake brushes are originally Japanese and are soft goat’s hair brushes with a plain wooden or bamboo handle, and are used in pottery and furniture…
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Night Moves & Moons
I have been doing a lot of the night work series recently, for various reasons – mostly because it’s warmer and it’s quieter at night, so safer. Sometimes recently I’ve been heading out as late as 9 or 10pm….here are two recent watercolours from the river at night. The first ‘Night Moves/Moods’ is looking towards…
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Landing Lights And Perfumed Gardens
Another development is the return of the free watercolour – look Ma, no lines! No ink! I am aware that sometimes my work is a little bit like those old ‘colouring in’ books from my childhood which are now all the rage again…draw ink lines…fill in the bits….don’t rinse, repeat. So nice to do some…
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Urban Watercolour – ♥ Death
I’ve not done an Urban Watercolour for a long while, since last last year or earlier although ‘Two Birds’ came close. Urban watercolour is where I find disused buildings or urban setting, especially graffiti and lovingly render it in anachronistic dip-pen and watercolour. This is a disused building on the Alexandria Playing Ground near Tolworth…
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Hogsmill
Avoiding the dangerous Easter zombie crush along the River Thames, I have been exploring quieter parts including the Hogsmill River. The Hogsmill is a tributary of the Thames, much favoured by the Pre-Raphaelites, William Holman-Hunt regularly painted near it, or in the case of John Millais most famously painted a woman in it near Tolworth,…
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Lilac Time – Night Paintings #8
Given the warmer and weather and the lack of looky-loos I’ve returned to night painting. (Previously the rubbernecking people who come up to you while painting was just an annoyance, it is now a real danger in the age of COVID-19). The first painting ‘Ghost Ship #2’ was a late night addition to a previous…
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