Collision course in paint. One of numerous attempts to get a sense of speed and impact on paper/canvas.

These are some quick drawings done in acrylic. They are short flashbacks to sailing the Frisian lakes long ago. Cold, grey, windy, wet and beautiful. Sitting on the side of the boat getting completely soaked by waves lashing over the side. If you huddled close together, the person sitting behind was relatively sheltered and the person in front had to have good waterproofs or get soaked, which was usually the case, since our gear was mostly the worse for wear. Good times!

A couple of recent charcoal drawings. When drawing faces I don`t usually have a photograph or image in my head. I just start with an eye or outline of a head, take it from there and see where it leads me.

What's inside?

Flo. Stillness and motion.

This is older work. I came across this one just now whilst searching for something else the way that happens. There are a few basic themes and shapes that reappear in my work at various times (portraits, the human figure, geometric shapes, the dogs, movement/speed) and the way I hop from one theme to the other, one medium to the other, and back again apparently at random is reflected in the order and irregularity in which work appears on the blog. I just post images that I find interesting, either new work or older work I have rediscovered, and hope the few people who visit this blog enjoy it. It`s funny how just posting a drawing or painting on my blog creates a distance and it is almost as if I am looking at someone else`s work. It`s very similar to framing something and seeing it change. As if it is somehow more finished and ready to be put out there and let go as strange as that may sound.

In my last post I wrote I was going back to charcoal drawings for a while and here are a few portraits. These were done in a single session. I made a whole pile and put most of them aside, but these ones interest me, at least for now. I may look at them again later and and wonder `what was I thinking?`

 

 acrylic on hardboard

Haven`t posted anything for a while - never was much good at keeping a regular diary. Right now I`m taking a short break from painting and working with charcoal again which, along with pencil, is one of my favourite mediums.
Today`s posts, though, are two older works from a period when I was playing around with bistre and various types of inks.

bistre and pencil on paper

a door to a river                                                                         

bridges to nowhere

A doodle on canvas.