Kate Miller Metro Illustration

In today's Metro newspaper Kate Miller's illustration on page 41 really caught
my eye. Did you see it?  It illustrated an advice piece about how to get on with
the in-laws and had a couple in party hats rowing on a green background and a
young woman in the left-hand foreground ........

Here are some links to see more of Kate Miller's illustrations:
www.kate-miller.com
www.centralillustration.com/artists/kate-miller

New Paintings

these new paintings are a 

development from my earlier work 

which features on older posts

 paintings like these...........

after cutting out circles the space left behind 

is more interesting.....

SOUTHBANK

the seaside comes to London 

 southbankcentre.co.uk

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see the most recent posts

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Cityscape

some sketches of the glass skyscrapers in the City 

...thinking about transparency, reflections and facade

THE SHARD

Here's what the Shard will look like when it is completed in 2012:
Futurelondon.com 

Sarah Morris

I really like the paintings of artist Sarah Morris. Her work can be seen on this site
www.petzel.com/artists/sarah-morris .... the ones I like best on this site are:

(number 23) Metro Center Capital 2001  and (number 27) Midtown-HBO/Grace 1999

these are inspiring me in my drawings of skyscrapers in the City.

Cityscape

out drawing in the Bishopsgate

Liverpool Street Station area

see more by clicking on the Cityscape page

Drawing in Leeds

drawing event in Leeds on the 14th

leedslifedrawing.com 

The Rothko Room at the Tate Modern has been reopened.  It is on level 3 inside the Material Gestures section. The murals that were intended  for  the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building in NY are hung there.  Seeing the murals again I was struck by the quietness and vastness of them.  In painting these murals Rothko was influenced by Michelangelo's Laventian Library in Florence with its blind windows and oppressive atmosphere.  The murals are all in dark reds and greys and looking at them intently there is a sense of looking out through a window.  

looking back over my older posts on this blog I rediscovered this drawing which I am going to use as a starting point for a new series of sketches and paintings on urban structure .... focusing on windows 

SUZY ABRAHAMS

www.suzyabrahams.com

www.fountaingallery.co.uk

this looks like an interesting exhibition about to open at the end of April

FATPAINT

graphic design tool - create and 

save artwork

www.fatpaint.com

Make Do

'Make Do' acrylic on canvas 16 x 16 inches

these chromatic greys are subtle colours, the tints

were created by mixing colour with white...

this references an earlier blog post of drawings 

done based on quilts.... the title 'Make Do' is a 

reference to the current interest in craft activities 

detail of the painting

drawings based on quilts

URBAN GRID

biro and chalk pastel

HEAVY PENCIL

This week Heavy Pencil are hosting an evening of 
Live Drawing and Music at Somerset House on the
24th...... 
www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual_arts/pick_me_up_2011/1324.asp

its part of the Pick Me Up Graphics Art fair:
 
www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual_arts/pick_me_up_2011

URBAN SPRAWL

a doodle based on the idea of structure

held up to the light the lines on the other side of the page are visible

the doodle uses both sides of a page in my sketchbook