Undertow
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″
Author: Amanda
Contre-Jour
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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Green Men in coloured pencil (3)
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…
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Green Men in coloured pencil (2)
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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Green Men in coloured pencil (1)
I wanted to take the green man idea a little further than my series of small (10x15cm) lino cuts allowed. Green men, in the form of foliate heads, are found as carvings in stone or wood in some medieval churches, so I decided to draw…
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Basingstoke Art Club Exhibition
As one art club exhibition (Winchester) closes, another one opens… It’s the final weekend for the Winchester Art Club exhibition at the ARC, and the first for the smaller Basingstoke one at the Willis Museum. What did you do on your holidays? Basingstoke Art Club…
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The Olive Tree
Olive trees are great – when they get old they become wonderfully gnarly, and they produce olives, which are good to eat – but you don’t find many growing in the woods around here. They are neither native nor naturalised in Britain, but they can…
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Hampshire Cultural Trust Interview
I was very surprised, at the preview evening for Winchester Art Club’s exhibition at the ARC Winchester, to be asked if I would be interviewed for Culture on Call, Hampshire Cultural Trust’s online magazine as a representative of the exhibition and the club. I was…
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Fountain Pens for Sketching
I’ve been doing a bit of Urban Sketching recently, and I’ve been asked about my pens a few times, so I thought I’d post about them. I use fountain pens because they are refillable (in almost any colour you want!) and because they are really…
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Winchester Art Society annual exhibition 2023
The Arc, Winchester, 28 September – 12 November 2023 I felt very honoured to have Dragon Skeins chosen as the main promotional image for this exhibition. It was shown last year; this year I have four new, smaller, works up, and a tiny sketchbook in…
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