Stripeless Tigers

I think this might be my 200th post! I suppose that means I've done a lot of drawings over the last couple of years. 4 years?





This is a step on the way to combining pure shape-excitement with intensity picture-excitement. What I like just now best is pure pencil, or pure watercolour... other things complicate my thinking unnecessarily. I don't need those extra textures... I need to think in pure pictures. Form dealt with first, then colour in a way where it's doable.

Sloppy Pale Tiger

I painted a watercolour picture.

I'm not sure either Ruskin or John K would approve of it, but I am sort of excited on my own behalf about watercolour at the moment, and sometimes you have to do things on your own behalf, even if they don't fit with anything else.






It's based on an old postcard I had of an ancient Greek mosaic, which I've always come back to.

Bobby Baby

More Bobby baby studies.

Bob and Me

Realism.

Family Drawings

Observed drawings of family watching telly.

Things from Before

Bobby (before hair cut)





Some of my cartoon studies (messy mess mess) for John K (I lack discipline)










A doodle page of the old school:





Lots more different stuff to post soon.

Anonymous Baby

Picture no.1 of 2010... soft long headed pastel baby.

I didn't initially mean it to be weird. I am just trying to find ways round babies. This was my first try. It's based on a picture of Bob in the bath as a baby but it doesn't look like him any more. It didn't matter too much though, I was trying out new paper and a new approach to combining materials. By repeating the process and taking notes I might end up with a more confident approach that is either sellable or showoffy. One of the major hazards with drawing babies is ending up with something creepy or ghoulish.