This morning I joined a few U3A people who were drawing in Gadebridge park. (Hemel Hempstead).Such safe distancing, didn't really speak...

Firstly, even more drawings done at car boot sales. The first one from 1988. The next getting more involved with people- A great place to...

The main thing today is for the subscribers to this blog who also have attended the Art class at Chorleywood on Fridays. Because of the...

The final drawing in yesterdays' post looked OK until I sprayed it with hairspray. The white chalk soaked into the brown paper and it all...

I set up a board with brown pastel paper on my easel. Gave myself a limited range of pastels for a tonal study. In several sessions I did...

Not that I'm suggesting that anyone gets bored at this time. I was looking through my old drawings and found several that were done when...

I start with a drawing I did yesterday. Sat in the chair I fall asleep in when telly is on, propped my leg on coffee table, drawing pad ...

Bearing in mind the old collage experiments I found for my last blog, I cut out some shapes from a calendar photo of a swan - gradations...

Feeling a bit stuck at the moment about producing new exciting work, I have cleaned up and re-photographed this relief sculpture that I...

I have tried to do studies of planted pots but they are too picturesque. I get bogged down in prettiness, and the studies lack impact. I...

I did more to this yesterday morning. Used various colours. The idea is that whatever is on your brush, you scan across the whole...

I have chosen a view of the allotments that is about sweeping lines with a mass of angles.The broad sweep of the image must remain a...

I have been building up the background areas to avoid undue emphasis on the table and chairs The following is I think the final one- The...

After the agony of designing an abstract collage, I went around the house and garden this morning taking lots of photos. Some of them I...

Have been rearranging bits of paper for too long. I decided to add a sheet of white paper to the mix- And another shuffle of the pack-...

I spent much of yesterday cutting and assembling more “units” for my collage. I also took lots of photos exploring possible designs. The...

To start, another definition of Art- “Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”(Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906) I am cutting out sections from a...

I start with the development of the charcoal study of the dried sunflower that I started on Saturday- This was continued with quite fast...

For a change I am taking the liberty of posting some work done last year at Chorleywood when we had a workshop on Landscape in Pastels. i...

I start with a view of my lounge - recent work beautifully displayed. Here is more detail of what I have been doing. Firstly, I started...