Tag: Drawing
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Roots to Branches 12
1.2.13 February. Two weeks have been spent working with the Fulbridge Entrance project and I feel exhausted already! The good news however is that although it’s taken 4 long, hard working days, the drawing stage has been completed. A weekend now to recharge the batteries, and on Monday morning, painting!
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Roots to Branches 11
31.1.13 A day spent with Bridge, Brahms, Bach, Boccherini, Schumann, Tippett, Palestrina and Liszt amongst others, but most importantly……………………Sarah Walker! The drawing stage of the right hand side of the composition almost completed
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Roots to Branches 10
29.1.13 I should have known better. With lifting and shifting to accommodate the various sections being a feature of the working day, drawing the design was bound to take longer than one session. I was being too optimistic and too eager to start painting. The drawing process, as with the preparation of the surface, has…
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Roots to Branches 9
28.1.13 Snow gone, temperature up and following a week of preparing the boards, a start has been made with drawing. First job of the day however was to place the sections together to ensure the better sides were selected as painting surfaces. Painting will be a challenge with each section being painted separately. A grid…
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Roots to Branches 5
21.1.13 Drying time is an awkward and time consuming part of the process but there are other things to be done before I begin the task of drawing in the design. One job has been to prepare a plan to assist the transfer from drawing board to plywood sections. Some adjustments were needed to prevent…
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Roots to Branches
A new year, another bigger picture project. It was suggested toward the end of last year by Iain Erskine, Head of Fulbridge School, Peterborough. ‘I’ve a job I’d like you to think about,’ he said, ‘for the gable over the front entrance’. I’ve painted gable ends before but never within the confines of a triangle,…
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Man in the Mirror
ME Self Portrait a Day I’m Starting With The Man In The MirrorI’m Asking Him To Change His WaysAnd No Message Could Have Been Any ClearerIf You Wanna Make The World A Better PlaceTake A Look At Yourself,And Then Make A Change…………………. (Glen Ballard / Siedah Garrett 1988)
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We Are The Champions……………3
1.5.12 Day 2 The journey to school took an hour thanks to a traffic jam on the Parkway, I arrived at 9.25 and my first job of the day was to complete the drawing in of the design. An hour later this had been achieved and I began mixing two contrasting grey tones using the…
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We Are The Champions……………2
30.4.12 Day 1 We are the champions – my friends And we’ll keep on fighting – till the end You don’t become a ‘champion’ by half measures and everyone included in this composition achieved their reputations through their dedication and by keeping on fighting – till the end. Sharing the presence of these special people…
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We Are The Champions……………1
My mission, if I chose to accept it, was a mural, an invitation from Iain Erskine, Head of Fulbridge School, Peterborough. The theme – ‘Champions of Humanity’. The catch – that it would be painted in a corridor during a normal school day, with staff and children watching its progress as they went about their…