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More fish in the sea, and in Waitrose
For The South Woodford Village GazetteRather more organic than architecture but the rules of proportion remain the same. I drew this in pencil on site, in Waitrose, with permission, and watercolored it...
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Kings Cross St Pancras
After a couple of months umm-ing and ah-ing about it, I decided today was the day and got the paint box out. In a previous post on this drawing, I owned up to using the 'wrong sort' of paper for using...
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St Peter Vere Street 350º
I thought I had finished the spire set. I was going to draw something else. Then a friend alerted me to the large group to be found in the environs of SW3; Kensington, Chelsea, etc. But a tad closer to...
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Three Guardian Angels
The Church of the Guardian Angels in Mile End Road needed to be included in my Point me to the Skies series just for its name alone! Also, it is a very quirky design; and I was reliably informed by a...
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Into the distance, from Peter Jones.
On my site, I have called this The Albert Memorial. I think it's in the general direction, and when the sun is shining, you can see flashes of gold. For the past couple of years, I've concentrated on...
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Ukrainian Cathedral near Bond Street
Or or give it it's original name, King's Weigh House Chapel. Dedicated in 1891, the immense piece of late Victorian Gothic Revival occupies a corner of Binney Street W1. Not a particular fan of the...
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Brides Revisited
A couple of years ago, you may remember, I had a thing about fashion illustration. This was a commission for a wedding present, after the event. As the pose was already on the elegant side, I didn't...
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Noel Coward
Or, rather, his theatre in St Martin's Lane. In the summer I hit on the brilliant idea of drawing west end theatres. You know, magical places, indeed, palaces where one can escape to and be cosseted in...
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Yesterday I posted my last post on here, or so I thought. Funny how one gets attached to the virtual, isn't it. I started a blog up on my site (which I will be keeping) and decided to leave this one....
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I miss Art on the Left, but it doesn't fit anymore. But the 'Left' is still applicable, as all my drawings tend to lean over in that direction, generally by 1º. When I initially noticed, I put it down...
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This is the last time I'm going to faff about with the title. Art on the Left has a history, which I am not going to deny. And it sounds snappier than Drawn to the Left. So apart from the more accurate...
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A Chelsea Bollard
One of many. There are some old ones on Chelsea Embankment and newer looking versions on King's Road. The old ones have a base like this, the newer ones are a bit deeper. This took me a while to...
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Trace of Tempest Fugit
I like tracing paper, and light boxes, but especially tracing paper. I find it much easier to draw on, and erase from, than normal paper. And yes, going over the back, and then tracing onto the final...
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More cranes again
Back outside, and in Granary Square at the end of March. Still lots of building workgoing on around Kings Cross, so I took another opportunity to draw some cranes and a couple of planes. Anyway, a good...
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New obsession
These may not be architecture, but they are still geometric shapes. Even though they are way smaller than my building drawings, they still took me a long time to paint. The garnet at 37mm across,...
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How the Ruby went down.
Ruby 2Ruby 3Ruby 1 & 4Three drawings, four attempts. Rubies are not like their Corundum counterparts, the sapphires. They do not have the same clear transparent nature, and their red-orangey colour...
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Drawn in Chelsea
Working drawings. I used to do all my work from life as a finished piece in it's own right. My theatres are a halfway house of the process, but these are the genuine article. Not intended for public...
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Still in Chelsea
...and back with the bollard. This is the one in front of the main entrance to Peter Jones, not that you can tellof course. The previous studies where not as accurate as they should have been, and the...
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Digging deeper
Morganite hexagonal prisms on matrixPseudomorphous after a shellRadiating rubellite prismsMy mineral research has taken over for the time being. Not that I am being obsessive; it just looks that way....
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Mazarin and Rose Diamond
Mazarin cut Rose cutI'm still doing the gemstones. I think there is an unlimited supply. One mine dries up and another one pops up, or, rather...
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Bits of a hallmark
These are the last two designs for the wedding anniversary card range. There is write up on them on this months edition of The Leopard, newsletter of the London Assay Office. For these, I had to figure...
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Guildford Cathedral after the 17.37
Last week I was on my way home after a few days away in Surrey. Having got to the station just in time to miss the 17.37, I was afforded the opportunity to draw the view from the footbridge....
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The new metallics
... apart from the two at the bottom, they're a melo melo and a conch. I learnt to paint pearls in a generic fashion, from a YouTube video. A very good one, I might add. But, with a little googling and...
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The Fellow, 24 York Way, N1
Made myself comfortable in the far corner with an orange juice and the communal pot of curly fries, and got down to business. This was the second drawing of the evening, light was failing outside and I...
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Top of 'The Long Acre', Great Newport Street
As seen from the window seating in Prets. Very random rooftop which appeals to me greatly. Took longer to draw than I thought, really because as I wanted to get the tower in, I decided to draw from...
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