Figurative Art

 

Untitled Female No. 13

This is one of the four matted (all figurative) pieces, I am putting in the Lambeth Art Association Annual Show and Sale. The Spring Sale is Thursday April 25 to Saturday April 27 at the Lambeth United Church.

India Ink, applied with a brush, on tan stonehenge paper, from figure drawing session at The ARTS Project

Figure Drawing

Untitled Female No. 13

India Ink, applied with a brush, on tan stonehenge paper, from figure drawing session at The ARTS Project.

Here and There, Switzerland

 

Here and There, Switerland (size: 7" x 9")

Commission artwork, with style based on a previous painting. After visiting Switerland, this is the painting to commemorate the trip. I started with the figure, from a Monday night session at The ARTS Project. I looked through the photos from the trip and picked out images that I felt suited, windows and mountains. I used the greenery to tie it together, similar to “Here and There”. “Edelweiss” the unofficial national flower of Switzerland. (The common name comes from German edel, meaning "noble", and weiß (also spelled weiss) "white", thus signifying "noble whiteness" or "noble purity".) Windows are interesting and symbolic.... they are an invisible division between private and public, are you inside looking out or outside looking in. Windows are said to symbolize enlightenment.

Here and There (size 6" x 12")

A short explanation of the original artwork, created in 2008 ... The human figure is at some level a self portrait. This represented my new found appreciation of the architecture in downtown London. This artwork was done after I came back from Limoux in the picturesque Languedoc area of Southern France, in 2007. The windows: one from a small town in southern France and and one from downtown London on Talbot Street.

Small Line Drawing

Small female (4" x4") india ink on stonehenge paper. A simplified line drawing from last monday night figure drawing session. (Untitled Female No. 10)

More Figure Drawing

Added india ink using calligraphy pen to a couple simple line drawings from last Monday night. Working on some colour ones, but not liking the results yet.