Showing posts with label happy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy. Show all posts

Friday, 6 May 2016

Apples on brown paper, mixed media.

I'm creating a drawing a day for a year, just for the art of it.

Today's are some apples with pen, watersoluable pencils and markers.

I used to think still lifes of fruit and such were not really proper subjects for artists, just for practice, like playing scales on the piano. When I was about ninteen the Tate got together a vast collection of Cezanne's work and I went up to London to see it, I will never forget standing in front of Cezanne's Apples and Oranges, rooted to the earth and elated all at once, no art book does it justice - they are the most alive and appley apples in the cosmos! The beautiful reality of really caught on canvas.

If I just once give another human the kind of lift that I buzzed on all that day with some peace of mine, l have lived a worthwhile life.

Anyway, here are my apples, I'm not going to compare them unfavourably with Cezanne's work - if I started down that read I would quit drawing by the end of the day!



Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Camper van!

I'm creating a drawing a day for a year, just for the art of it.

The beauty of that is I can draw whatever I feel like in any style l like, with no reference to what might sell.

Today's drawing is a camper van. I've spent so many charmed and happy hours in a van like this and a few frustrating ones, on motorway hard shoulders!


Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Sunday, 27 March 2016

Geranium, flower.

I'm creating a drawing a day for a whole year just for the art of it.

I'm at my in-laws so here is a lovely geranium my mother in law grew.