I very seldom reuse a source photograph, but I did here. The photograph was taken in 2018 and I used it that year to make Hanging Ash, a monochrome ink on kaolin-coated board, a drawing that was subsequently sold at an art fair. The bluff…
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This is based on a photograph that I took on a walk in east Hampshire which included two bridleways called Standfast Lane and Mill Lane. I can’t remember which lane I took the photograph on , but it doesn’t really matter because Standfast is a…
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This is another scene from my walk in the Shropshire hills in January. The wall alongside the track I was following had fallen into disrepair some time ago, and had been populated by holly, rowan and oak. This was near the top of the Stiper…
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This shows rowan trees atop a tumbledown dry stone wall at Brook Vessons nature reserve in Shropshire. The location, which I visited in January and would like to return to in a milder month, is part of a derelict hillside mining village abandoned in the…
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A nascent sunken lane running alongside the much deeper Hartley Mauditt Lane (featured in MultiStorey and Mauditt). The group of trees to the right are also shown, from a different angle, in Undertow. Summit, Ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x16″
Exposed tree roots on the sheer side of a greensand holloway in Surrey. Moss Walk, Ink on kaolin-coated board, 14×11″
Beech trees throw some incredible shapes. This is on the upper storey path from my large drawing Multistorey. Undertow, Ink on kaolin-coated board, 12 x16″
There’s something very dramatic about viewing something “against the light”, or from the shadow side with light seeping around the edges. And I rather like dramatic. This is another scene from Church Lane, in Witley, Surrey. The lane is less sunken here, near the top…
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Staying with the A3 size, I moved on to white paper for the next set of green men. I decided to name this group more consistently. They became the Vikings, all with Scandinavian names and with decorative elements similar to the sort of designs that…
Continue reading Green Men in coloured pencil (3)
It being winter, I had moved in to the house to draw my green men. Coloured pencil is a fairly innocuous medium, with the possible exception of the pencil shavings. But the only drawing board that I have that is big enough for a sheet…
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