Recent drawings - in no particular order
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| Doorway in Noto Sicily. Drawn from photograph 14 12 2012 |
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| Idea for a Yuletide greetings card. Drawn 7 12 2012 |
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| Because I find them so difficult I have been avoiding drawing people. In order to try to overcome this people-phobia have essayed to draw them more often. While in Sicily I took many photographs of random people so that I might spend dark winter evenings practising copying them. Drawn 15 12 2012 |
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| Sicilians, Noto, Sicily. Drawn 12-16 12 2012 |
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| More Sicilians, Noto, Sicily. Drawn 9 12 2012 |
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| Lisi at her computer, drawn from life but coloured from memory. I made the drawing in the morning before going out for several hours. When I returned Lisi had re-arranged the furniture in the room obliging me to resort largely to memory to finish the drawing. |
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| Ruined tower near Loutsa Beach on a foul weather morning. 4 12 2012 |
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| Morning coffee and chocolate chip cookies; my invariable breakfast. 21 11 2012 |
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| An attempt at a portrait to illustrate her birthday card of one of my grand-daughters. Would like to have had a go at this again to make and improved version but birthdays do not wait so I had to either give up the idea of a portrait birthday card or go with what I had. 3 12 2012 |
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| Excellent anchovies bought in Marzemeni, Sicily. Drawn 21 11 2012 |
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| My studio; work in progress! 30 11 2012 |
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| 'On Location', Koroni. 22 11 2012 |
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| Filthy day, Kalamata. Drawn from photograph 3 12 2012 |
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| A side of the living room drawn over two pages. The white space above the settee is waiting for a mural to be painted on it. 27 12 2012 |
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| Vendicari, Sicily. 5 11 2012 |
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| Velanidia (My home) from the south-west. 26 11 2012 |
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| Attempt, across two pages, to copy of a drawing in Samuel Palmer's 1824 sketchbook inspired, perhaps, by the Greceo-Roman carving, in the British Museum, of Edymion asleep on Mt Latimos. |
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| After the Saturday Stroll. Boots, cooling. 24 11 2012 |
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| Cluttered kitchen; ' . . to clean or to draw? That is the question!' 23 11 2012 |
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| Lisi's wooden house among Balsam Poplars at Vallanes, Iceland. Drawn from photograph recently taken by a friend of hers who is still at the farm. Like a migrating bird, Lisi will return there in the spring and return to Greece in the autumn! Drawn 15 12 2012 |
I really do like your style John, and those Sicilian people drawings really have something nice about them.
ReplyDeleteand not having visited for a while, then looking back too, I can see it is evolving nicely
ReplyDeletewow John - what an amazing collection of sketches - congratulations!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind comments but I know that I am yet far, far from the end of this particular journey!
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