Tag: Shades of brown

  • Filter Beds and Bicycles

    Filter Beds and Bicycles

    Since I last visited the Filter Beds, I’ve sold the Moon piece – thanks Linda, it’s off to it’s new home, and a lot has happened….July feels like years ago! But despite still banning the river it’s allowed as a subject and I wander by there regularly. There has been concern locally about the Filter…

  • On The Promenade

    On The Promenade

    Sounds like a film ‘On The Promenade’ – an arty French black and white flick, bit like ‘On The Waterfront’ but more, well, French. Sort of tying in with that thought is ‘Japonisme’ – the influence of Japanese art on European and particularly French art with these ink drawings. Not sure what the type of…

  • Life drawing #7

    Life drawing #7

    After the previous week’s triumph, the next week was less successful…I had a cold, felt feverish. The model was interesting though, very thin, Egon Schiele type. She didn’t like my drawings though, and I can’t blame her. The pastel of her back was good, focusing purely on tone and not marks – a failed version…