Category Archives: artist anxiety

Guiding Lights

Posted on November 24, 2016 by

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 →

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Winter Light

Posted on December 15, 2015 by

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 →

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Lost and Found

Posted on October 23, 2015 by

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 →

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Spot the Difference

Posted on July 1, 2015 by

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 →

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The Only Thing I Ever Got From You Was Sorrow

Posted on June 19, 2015 by

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 →

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Let the Paper Experiment Begin!

Posted on April 24, 2015 by

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 →

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Quality Control

Posted on February 3, 2015 by

Uh oh!  How did it come to this?   A couple of hours ago it had been intact. I had been completely happy with this drawing.  After I finished it I called it “Interplay” and filed it away.   My plan … Continue reading →

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