Tag: Raven's Ait
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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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Tales From The Riverbank 5: Two Sisters, Soliciting Swans and Ginger Bees
I came across a cache of old photos sang the Pet Shop Boys, and similarly I came across a cache of river bank images I never posted from 2021, and some new ones from 2022 that I’ve done before and after my trip. First up is this view of the Ginger Bees cafe from 2021, created…
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Tales From The Riverbank 3: Black Swans, Ravens, Cages & Texts
Despite the general artistic malalse of ‘what am I doing?’ I have kept myself busy, even working more frequently down on the river, something I burnt myself out of two years ago during the pandemic, but this time exploring with other media, drawing people who are sunbathing on the riverbank, drawing the odd things that…
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Night On The River
It’s been a while since I spent the night drawing or painting on the river – in fact there is a whole gallery of Night Work from a year or more ago doing exactly that. Because of winter and quite often starting late, I’ve been catching a lot of sunsets and nocturnal views, working from…
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Tales from the Riverbank 1 – The Sentinel
And from my last post coming bang down to earth in Surbiton, we have to revisit the riverbank – as I have been working more on the river over the summer. Still not to pre-pandemic levels, but I still visit there from time to time and work. Apart from drawing the boats there which is…
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Skyscapes
When I was an art student in the 90’s you’d expect me to have been into Hirts and all that, but I actually was just as much into Monet’s Haystacks and the skyscapes and oil sketches of John Constable. The latter, especially his Cloud Studies and Skyscapes left a very big mark on my psyche…
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