drawing again…

… this time in ink. The drawing above had candle wax rubbed into the paper after the lines had been drawn in order to create a ‘resist’ for the wash. Hence the interesting marks.

A landscape drawn in ink and wash with brushes, a pen used only for the scribbled clouds. Work such as this is best carried out swiftly in order to keep everything flowing and lively.

Drawings for the Old Stile Press edition of Richard’s Barnfield’s Sonnets were made in ink on acetate with colour used underneath. This is a study for one of the illustrations and it was made with a combination of a glass pen and a calligraphy brush. Working with a glass pen on acetate is more like ice skating when compared with conventional drawing using a metal nib on paper.

A preliminary study for a commissioned stained glass window. Brush, pen and crayon. Lots of drawings were produced for this project, the final one a full size colour ‘cartoon’ as a template for the window.

Another study for the stained glass window. A more refined drawing begins to capture the tone I was looking for.

Mari Lwyd drawing. Pen, brush and wash drawing with chalk highlights.

snow, horse, bird

The snow has long since gone from our garden and the landscape around us. But trawling through the photographs we took  just before we left for Berlin, I found this one and decided to post it here as a farewell to the magnificence that swaddled us so beautifully for weeks on end. I’ve posted it at a high definition so that you can click to see Philip the pheasant standing just behind our loose-boxes. Henrietta and Agnes must have been around there somewhere, fluffed up against the cold and ensconced in a little hollow scratched underneath the bushes, their usual cosy arrangement. A snowscape painting is cooking up in the Battery. Not possible to be surrounded by such magnificence without it filtering into my work.