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Category Archives: artist anxiety
Guiding Lights
Electricity powers lights which, in turn, empower people to walk around (usually safely) after dark. Rue Quincampoix, a medieval street in the Temple area of Paris, never looked like this in any time other than our own. This long narrow … Continue reading
Winter Light
Anxiety went into this drawing. As I have written in past posts, some drawings just glide to the finish line with ease. Not this one. It was a real struggle. Colours were pushed and pulled, added to, subtracted, and modified … Continue reading
Lost and Found
Notes from my art journal: 1st October 2015: “Today I am lost in limbo. I have all this new material [from a recent trip to Japan] but in my current state it seems old and ‘done’. I’m tired and grumpy … Continue reading
Spot the Difference
I have not used my new paper, Velin BFK Rives, very much yet. After two drawings which succeeded, I fell off my horse (so to speak) with the one below. Though I may have sounded gung ho in my post … Continue reading
The Only Thing I Ever Got From You Was Sorrow
It is ironic that the title for the above drawing was to be “Joy” for, to quote David Bowie, “The only thing I ever got from you was sorrow”. I have done more to the colours since I took … Continue reading
Let the Paper Experiment Begin!
It has been a confronting fortnight for me. The drawing paper which I had been using exclusively since 2001 suddenly ran out. I found out that my beloved Magnani Pescia was gone, gone, gone. The Magnani paper mill in Italy … Continue reading
