Thumbnails of the twelve figures as mentioned in the last Blog entry. I shall feature them all at a later date, probably after the New Year.

This is one of a series of twelve figure drawings I have done in the last few months. The images are from fashion designs and here I have been exploring images created with certain photography techniques. This white vignetting effect occours in pinhole camera photography. Used here in drawing it is a chance to show a fully developed drawing in the centre and then gradually reveal the stages of development as the eye moves to the periphery of the picture.
All the images are in pencil of varying softnesses (3B -12B) done on 300gsm cartridge. The size of each is A3. I plan to exhibit them as a self contained entity at some (as yet unspecified) time in the future.

Sometimes the boundary between drawing and painting can get a bit blurred. This was drawn in ultramarine watersoluble pencil and thin washes as layers applied afterwards.

There are dozens of headless and limbless statues lying about at ancient sites in the eastern Mediterranean. Its hardly surprising when we look at Greek history over the last two of three thousand years. What with the Phonecians, then the Medes and Persians, the Peloponesian wars to say nothing of the iconoclastic elements of later religious zealots. But the fragments that are extant make for interesting drawings. They've certainly given me an ongoing project to work on.

A couple of Hellenic figures. No comment really, I just fancied posting them from the last Cyprus sketchbook. The standing figure is the famous "Anzio Girl" and the other is simply a "Seated Girl", Γυνηη καθομι.

Harbour at Low Tide. St. Ives.

Drawn using two pages (full spread) of sketchbook. Interesting how the fold is co-incidently aligned with the sea margin.

St. Ives harbour. The beach at low tide. Pencil drawing on 150 gsm cartridge size 10 x 10 cm. I took a small pocket sized sketchbook with me to St. Ives. A handy size when working outside in an Atlantic gale.

I took with me my usual four clutch pencils; HB 0.5 mm., 3B 2 mm., 6B 3mm. and 4B 6mm. This latter functioned as a sort of graphite stick. I had a chunk of putty rubber and a collection of servietttes gleaned from the various cafés I visit.

I usually take along with me a (very) small box of watercolours. I carry the water in an old, small perfume spray bottle that holds about 50 mls. and a plastic medicine measure serves as a resevoir. All very cheap and easy to carry. I do allow myself one expensive item, the brush; it is a good quality sable that closes like a fountain pen. A good sable will shape to a very fine point. Its bulk holds colour well and when squeezed out, lifts excess colour off the paper with ease. The whole lot fits easily into a small satchel or as sometimes is the case, takes up no more room than two large anorak pockets.