A5 watercolour My wife says the resemblance is getting better in this watercolour (but the neck should be thinner. A somewhat worrying comment… ).
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les Artistes de la Rue à Issigeac
kazouuuuuuu oouuuuu zoooooo kkaaa zoooo uuuu bucket & thumper, grooveey french lads these A5 sketchbook drawing – pencil & ink Buskers – ‘les artistes de la rue’ – market day at Issigeac.
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watercolour- quarter sheet approx. © The Artist.
Self Portrait with a New Haircut
‘Self Portrait with a New Haircut’ Watercolour quarter imperial – arches rough 300gms © The Artist. Pulling faces again… I caught it for an instant whilst painting this portrait. That look of surprise & vanity & curiosity that follows after ahaircut, when you peer cautiously into the mirror to see weither the hair cut is…
My Brillant Career – Immendorf – Self Portrait
‘My Brillant Career’ A5 doodle. Ink © The Artist. my not so brillant career All these recent posts of my retrospective work over the last twenty years has depressed me. Gloomy & disappointment….. so little? To cheer myself up I did a doodle, which started off with a red dot & ended in a…
Figs II
‘Figs II’ 32 x 24 cm. Watercolour. Lana 220 GMS © The Artist. sold I forgot to mention the garlic in the previous recipe. Fry some garlic along in the duck’s breast. When the meat is done (rosy… sometimes I add a splash of raspberry vinager which then turns this recipe into a kind of…
Figs
32 x 28 cm. Watercolour, Lana 220 GMS © The Artist. sold Figs from the garden.Thinking about how to cook them. Vegetarian resolve goes to pot. The South West is the land of THE DUCK. Here’s how I’d do them: Slow fry the duck’s breast in a frying pan, Cook till rosy red but still…
Electric Guitar Busker – ‘L’Assurance Vie’ – life insurance?
‘Busker’ A5 scribble in ink Market day in Bergerac. Busker with electric guitar & vox-box on the pavements. I particularily liked the juxtaposition between him, the artist doubtlessly living in precarity, and the publicity for life insurance. Everything has its price & the price of a life of creativity is often financial insecurity. I thinK…
Sunflowers III
‘Sunflowers III’24 x 32 cm.Watercolour. Lana 220GMS© The Artist.Click on image to enlarge (& see without the blur).SOLD
Sunflowers – the Last of The Stragglers
‘Last of The Stragglers’ 50 x 41 cm watercolour. Arches 180 GMS. © The Artist. SOLD I’ve been watching a field of late flowering sunflowers. Normally all the sunflowers are harvested by the end of July, and then afterwards, sometimes there might be a random second flowering of the self-sown seeds scatttered here or there.…