For a couple of years I’ve had an idea at the back of my mind to do a drawing based on Christina Rossetti’s 1859 poem Goblin Market as part of my Acid Renaissance series. It’s a poem that has been interpreted in multiple different ways over the years. The British Library’s introduction…
I wrote about the first drawing in this series-inside-a-series back in early August, and I wrote about some of the props and references later that month. Since then I’ve finished the second and third drawings in the arc. The next drawing, Study of a Figure in the Court of Queen…
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A couple of weeks ago in my last blogpost I wrote about my plan to make a number of Studies from the Court of Queen Mab, which will form an arc or mini-series as part of my Acid Renaissance series, and introduced the first drawing from this arc. This drawing, like the others I am planning,…
My original plan was a very large scale, multi-figure, drawing of the Court of Queen Mab, but I simply don’t have the room - I’d need a large studio space to attempt something like that. So instead my amended plan is to make five or seven “Studies from the Court of Queen Mab”, which…
I’ve been trying to figure out the legality (and ethical conundrums) of restarting my life-drawing practice under the revised “3 Tier” system that is due to come into force in England on Wednesday 2nd December. I’m approaching this as objectively as I can, not in a “looking for loopholes”…
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I suddenly realised I haven’t updated this for a few months, and while I haven’t been especially prolific I have actually completed some more Acid Renaissance artwork, so… Sketch for “The Lotus Eaters” Sketch for “The Lotus Eaters” came together over June, and it’s…
Following on from April’s blog post, lockdown continues to force my Acid Renaissance series of artwork into different directions. Photography has been temporarily abandoned, as has in-person life-drawing. Instead I’m currently concentrating on drawing using photographs of life-models (or…
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eBay Experiment The drawers in my plan chest are full, I’ve run out of space to store artwork and a plan chest drawer filled to the top with stacked paper is surprisingly heavy - just opening and closing a drawer is starting to become heavy exercise. So, as an experiment, I’ve put…
Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines is the latest piece in my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. It’s a drawing made in Sanguine pencil (and some white pencil) measuring 760mm × 560mm, and yes, in terms of medium and lighting it’s unlike the previous pieces of artwork in this series.…
Being one of a (much overdue) series of updates on my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. The Keeper of the Archives In late June I took the photographs for The Keeper of the Archives. I had a great deal of trouble narrowing my choice down to one image from this shortlist of three: So…
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