Wednesday 30 September 2009

Down To Hayling Beach


 For this post I thought I would show some more working practice a combination of quick sketches and photos. the sjetches are a bit like shorthand notes and need not be perfect just reminders.with the photos as well the combination is a good way to record a lovely day out

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The Birds

Not very often you can get a groupo of birsds together ,they never seem to keep still long enough ,,,,this was taken yesterday down at Southsea.
in the background you can see  The Spinniker Tower one of Portsmouths best known landmarks

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Tuesday 29 September 2009

Photos of Everyday

I pass by this site almost everyday, it used to be a busy plant hire business lots of lorrys and machinery,sadly it closed and the site is waiting forits net phase in life as flats and social housing.
Even in decay and death there is art and wonder.



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Photos of Everyday

I pass by this almost everyday ...it used to be a bust site with lots of machinery for hire but it closed and is awaiting redevolpment  flats and social housing I thinkk but the recession has put that on hold.
Meanwhile it is slowly decaying but as it decays a certain transformation takes place and becomes something unique....it can be called art if that is what you see, I would like to see it that way.



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Monday 28 September 2009

Sketckbook Work


 Part of my working practice as a artist involves the use of a sketchbook.Ideas might flow or might not.
With these images I used neoclour watersoluble crayons, they are brilliant in more ways than one.
Also with a sketchbook you seem more connected and narer what tyour mind would like to create,


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Sunday 27 September 2009

Autumn Leaves

One moment
it was there
on a tree,then a gentle breeze
shook the branch.

Its time had passed
as part of a tree
falling down
to the ground.


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Saturday 26 September 2009

The view from the window

With the sun rising almost like a fire effect!
This the view  of the front and in early morning sun,
I do like the early morning sun .
the start of a new day
promising new things

This post has been inspired by imaginationroom and one of the twitpics that was of the view from her window,perhaps if I ask nicely she will show it again?


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Friday 25 September 2009

Jacob Maris | A Beach | NG4262 | The National Gallery, London

A lovely painting of a windswept beach. The wide open sky with clouds gives a sense of space

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Thursday 24 September 2009

Autimn Colours


 Autumn is progressing. Things die,turn brown and rot...a time of decay, but interesting things can be found ,the texture and feel and the wonder that they had lived 


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Wednesday 23 September 2009

Jazz Tiime Beach Time

This was one of my favourite Mediterrean paintings and for some reason it reminded me of jazz. Do not ask wht I am not even into Jazz, but the name spoke to me and stuck  ans so there you have It is abott 10x12inches aprox....very approx.


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Nature Painting

What better way than to let nature paint!
This a stone I found on one of my walks along our local bit of coast. It could have been a tile, whatever, nature has done its work the tide and the sun doing  some as well Looking at it it reminds me of looking down at a jungle from space. There are patches of trees still there but man has deystroyed. You can even see the road that the men in machines have made as a white line. Easy to get in and take what you want.
That is one way to look at what this stone is telling us.
It does also remind me of a eggshell in some ways.
What do you think?`


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Tuesday 22 September 2009

Blast from the past

Blowing of the dust again ....a image chosen at random from my archives, do not remember the size of this one but part of mediterranin series


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Monday 21 September 2009

New Dawn


 The New Dawn
 A New Day
 The Light is switched on

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Sunday 20 September 2009

Bonnard Late Interiors

I love this painting because of the stripped Tablecloth. The Lines give the painting a extra edge and with the meal on the table give the whole painting a satisfying feel.
The main Light source though comming from the unobseverd window is refleted from the floor.

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Bonnard

I Love this painting and it is one of my favorites....from the objects on the table to the open door and the view outside, to the use of warm colours .
You just want to be there.

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Saturday 19 September 2009

Constable Hampstead heath Heath with a Double Rainbow

Yet in 1966, this modest work caused a scandal. A routine x-ray of the work had revealed a drawing of sections of the London Tube map under Constable's brushwork. Indeed the very painting's composition is based on it and is clearly visible on the horizon (Central Line), the double rainbow (Piccadilly and Northern Lines), and the foreground (Victoria and Northern Lines).

The work was quickly removed, and it was decided that its official copy was in fact the original. During World War II, the British Government had implemented a policy of making copies of all major works in the public collections, so that the copies could be safely kept on exhibition to maintain public morale, in spite of air-raids, while the real works were kept safely in Wales, and only changed back once peace was established. Many of the great war artists such as Spencer, Nash and Sutherland were involved in producing these copies (and the influence shows clearly in their post-war work). This particular work was copied by Oliver Monklay, already employed as a restorer at the Tate, but noted as a skilled copyist.

A interesting tale but original Constabel

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Rainbows: problematic images of problematic nature

There was certainly ample precedent for thus endowing the rainbow with sacred meaning, and therefore the difficulties we encounter with these paintings by Linnell and Grimshaw do not arise in any eccentric personal symbolism, such as one comes upon in the works of Blake and Friedrich. A long tradition had made the rainbow a commonplace symbol of peace, hope, and grace not only in scriptural exegetics but also in pictorial and literary iconography as well. The source of this iconographical tradition is Genesis, which explicitly makes this optical phenomenon a divinely instituted covenant-sign: [158/159]
Rainbow Review more will follow

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Thursday 17 September 2009

Dawnbreak

The earth rotates
East to West
 New Day Dawning
The thin yellow strip of light just avove the horizon line.

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Wednesday 16 September 2009

Southsea Afternoon

Southsea on a pleasant Autumn afternoon.
Shipping on the Solent
Southsea Pier
Sunlight on water


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Tuesday 15 September 2009

Making Sense of New York 1

In the first year at Uni there was a unite called Site Specific.
In thta first year there was a tri[ to New York and theses are my images in tryuing to make sense of that great city...I wonder if anyone does . I will show a few more  images over the next few days.


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Monday 14 September 2009

Sunny Sothsea Monday Morning

This morning saw me down Southsea way . A bir windy along the front but then when is'nt it?
We are having  pleasant weather a the moment.Nice sunny periodes though its a bit cooler first thing and evenings.



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Saturday 12 September 2009

Blast From The Past!

Have been dusting off the dust from some old paintings and thought I would show some old images with you
These are from my Mediterranian pases and I like the bright sunny colurs.
They may have been completed or turned intoo something else...



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Friday 11 September 2009

Hayling Island Part Two


Tthe Horizon Line
Seashore
Horizon line two
Light over water
As promised some of the Hayling Island photos from Wednesdays walk. I really must try and get down there more often ....

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