17th February 2013
More live sketching at Janice’s, this time we played with scraps of newspaper.
More live sketching at Janice’s, this time we played with scraps of newspaper.
Great live sketching session with Janice & Louise, practicing “following your eye”, “not looking at the paper”, “drawing the third dimension” etc. Really interesting new stuff to me.
A bit of fun with the kid’s colouring pencils..
A magical place
Study for a commission painting..
some serious melting going on here
Why do summers have to be so hectic when you’re over 35?
Let’s have a glass of wine to reflect on this shall we? Oh and raise it to our one-hundredth-facebook-fan! 
more summer sketches & paintings to come…
The most difficult life drawing subject has to be a child (keeps moving)
One Saturday night in London when we had come back from Shunt Vaults…. A dark, mysterious place that transposes place and time into a heady cocktail of 60′s Cuba, dank Victorian underpasses that hint at the Vampiric, and the eroticism of the 30′s Orient – hidden behind a little door between London Bridge Underground and the turnstiles to Joiner Street, in the blink of an eye the weary commuter faces and Starbucks coffees are left behind and one is left to wander through art, live music and theatre – a place to escape and fantasise…..
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A selection of sketches done in cafés during our trip up to Belgium
Ghost Town Crooners version of the célèbre jazz standard, Gloomy Sunday. Made famous by Billie Holiday, who’s version was banned during the years of WW2.
Une reprise des Ghost Town Crooners de la chanson de jazz célèbre Gloomy Sunday, rendue célèbre par Billie Holiday, dont la version avait été interdite pendant les années de guerre.
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Whenever I see this,
I think to myself
“What are they talking about?”
A head inclined
A cigarette held vertical
A multicoloured world bursting into life
But their focus stays on words
Alex is driving up from Spain today for lunch. We’re looking forward to hearing all about the progress of his book.
This is a guy who had a dream. And has gone out and lived it. Inspiring.
Here is a sketch of him from 2007
More pictures from the guerilla life drawing group session we did with Ben Lowden on our trip to London. This time of our friends Franco Badiango and Ivan Calderon in London Fields.
An unformal guerilla life drawing group initiated by Ben Lowdon on HumHum.
Started with 4 people and their sketchpads, many more joined us in the fun until the early hours.
My big A3 sketchpad was borrowed many times and used for some awesome collaborative drawings.
Stay tuned as we’ll be posting the results over the next few days.
Voila les Kittens: Messirs Tokyo and Scruff asleep on the laundry basket
And here is Rebecca having a cuddle with Tokyo!
Pencil sketch of Klara, age 9, who spent many happy summer evenings watching out for shooting stars in the garden.
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Waiting for the train to come…
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Bex & Alex – Pencil
