Here’s an all time first. I’ve been staying the last fortnight with friends in their Indian Ocean paradise. As usual, I packed enough...

A few ingredients: 1. Flying visit to Louvre to see the Giotto exhibition 2. A box of crayons lurking in bottom of overloaded bag 3. A...

Tidying up. Found some crayons. Found a mirror without any light. Just what was needed. #drawing #Portraiture #Selfportrait

I have an exhibition starting this weekend. It’s in a relatively small room adjacent to a larger dining area and bar at The Reliance in...

I’ve been in the studio every spare second this week. When I’ve not been driving the backstreets of south Leeds in search of target...

#drawing #projectprocess

Yes. Absolutely. It is intrusive behaviour, and goodness knows how I’d feel if someone captured me with my head back, mouth open and an...

Waiting at station to collect a young international concert pianist whom we are hosting this weekend. The train is due in a couple of...

I think it’s over two years since I last did a life class. I was tempted to spend all today doing a “Klimt” based one. It’s a nice way of...

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#Charcoal #drawing #streetdrawing

Just as exciting as finding a new drawing app is the complete overhaul and improvement of an existing app. Art Studio, long one of my...

I’d hoped to find a way of posting these daily tasters on the fb event page but the system is defeating me. I have to admit some days I...

Despite the rain and consequential almost-floods requiring construction of a barrage of bags of compost across the drive, I made it in to...

The hands have it today. A week of making up poses and narratives has sent me scurrying in search of those masters of narrative posing to...

Last summer I completed a large drawing installation for the On The Edge festival in Leeds, mapping through drawing the demographic...

Busy busy busy at the moment. But busy on a sewing machine rather than in a sketchbook or in the studio. Creating a large machined...

Lazy days. I just want to sit out or lie down in the sun. This might be summer. It’s bound to rain over the Jubilee weekend....

Been drawing this scene in idle moments for years. Surreptitiously. I’m supposed to be concentrating and listening and absorbing. Soon...

Back to people. It’s always back to people. The default setting. Sometimes it’s people mediated through the eyes of another. The head at...