doodles..drawings..paintings..and thoughts...

Gerald Guerlais & Daisuke Tsutsumi

2012-01-24T22:54:00.000-08:00

the journey of a sketchbook.......

www.sketchtravel.tv

Kate Miller Metro Illustration

2011-12-19T04:20:00.000-08:00

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

2011-11-21T22:47:00.000-08:00

these are acrylic on paper

this one I will probably transfer

on to a large canvas

2011-11-16T22:51:00.000-08:00

2011-11-07T08:09:00.000-08:00

continuing with the geometric shapes......

New Paintings

2011-10-31T23:57:00.000-07:00

these new paintings are a

development from my earlier work

which features on older posts

paintings like these...........

2011-09-11T22:53:00.000-07:00

after cutting out circles the space left behind

is more interesting.....

SOUTHBANK

2011-07-09T07:13:00.000-07:00

the seaside comes to London

southbankcentre.co.uk

2011-07-09T06:17:00.000-07:00

click on 'THE TUNNEL' tab at the top of the blog

click on the 'SOUTHBANK' tab at the top of the blog

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Cityscape

2011-06-21T00:30:00.000-07:00

sketches for paintings

Cityscape

2011-06-21T00:26:00.000-07:00

paint techniques to convey the sense of glass, reflection and facade

2011-06-16T00:40:00.000-07:00

sketches based on the walls of glass around Liverpool Street Station

.....ideas for a painting

Cityscape

2011-06-06T00:38:00.000-07:00

some sketches of the glass skyscrapers in the City

...thinking about transparency, reflections and facade

Urban Sketchbook

2011-05-16T00:10:00.000-07:00

see more on the Urban Sketchbook page

THE SHARD

2011-04-28T00:24:00.000-07:00

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

Sarah Morris

2011-04-27T00:38:00.000-07:00

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

2011-04-21T00:44:00.000-07:00

out drawing in the Bishopsgate

Liverpool Street Station area

see more by clicking on the Cityscape page

Drawing in Leeds

2011-04-13T00:21:00.000-07:00

drawing event in Leeds on the 14th

leedslifedrawing.com

2011-04-04T00:40:00.000-07:00

2011-04-02T13:20:00.000-07:00

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.

2011-04-01T04:27:00.000-07:00

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

2011-03-30T00:43:00.000-07:00

www.suzyabrahams.com

www.fountaingallery.co.uk

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

FATPAINT

2011-03-29T00:38:00.000-07:00

graphic design tool - create and

save artwork

www.fatpaint.com

Make Do

2011-03-25T00:52:00.000-07:00

'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

2011-03-23T01:24:00.000-07:00

biro and chalk pastel

HEAVY PENCIL

2011-03-22T06:13:00.000-07:00

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

2011-03-21T01:45:00.000-07:00

2011-03-14T01:36:00.000-07:00

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

Islington Art Society Exhibition

2010-11-04T09:57:00.000-07:00

exhibiting with Islington Art Society

www.islingtonartsociety.org.uk

click to enlarge

this is my work

click to enlarge

AND TODAY....

2010-09-25T07:27:00.000-07:00

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SPRING FORTH

2010-09-13T06:51:00.000-07:00

SPRING FORTH

colour through the branches

building up the image with an overlay of foliage

organic shapes recorded in the sketchbook

in the park looking up
at the sunlight
coming through
the canopy of leaves
and branches

building up layers of colour with washes and masking fluid

JAQUINTA: LONDON ART EXHIBITION

2010-07-17T03:09:00.000-07:00

SOUTH LONDON GALLERY

NOTHING IS FOREVER

click on this sketchbook page to make larger to read........

Last week I went to the new exhibition at the South London Gallery
www.southlondongallery.org

Its new buildings are now open and the exhibition is a combination
of art and architecture with many art works drawn or painted directly
onto the gallery walls.

My favourite piece was by Gary Woodley. He had put geometric lines
across the staircase space to draw attention to the staircase
transforming from a space inbetween, a space of transition, a space
we pass through on the way to somewhere else into a dynamic space
with tension....... the black geometric lines encouraged me to
look at the whole space: the stairs under my feet and the walls and
ceiling......

JAQUINTA: LONDON ARTS DRAWING

2010-07-17T02:55:00.000-07:00

JAQUINTA: LONDON ARTS PAINTING

2010-07-15T07:20:00.000-07:00

summer heat

JAQUINTA: LONDON ARTS DRAWING

2010-06-11T05:24:00.000-07:00

in progress ..... now finished (from my sketchbook) see earlier posts

JAQUINTA IN LONDON DRAWING

2010-06-09T04:54:00.000-07:00

doing more drawing in my sketchbook

here in this film I have used a sense of scale

my hand and pen appear very large in

relation to the people going past

JAQUINTA: URBAN DESIGNS

2010-06-05T07:09:00.000-07:00

red black square red line

grey black

black square

JAQUINTA: DRAWING IN SKETCHBOOK

2010-06-03T12:06:00.000-07:00

something that I started in my sketchbook today

JAQUINTA: LIVERPOOL STREET STATION

2010-06-03T12:04:00.001-07:00

waiting for the bus outside Liverpool Street Station

JAQUINTA: SHOREDITCH, LONDON

2010-06-03T12:03:00.000-07:00

spotted on the street somewhere in Shoreditch

JAQUINTA: LIVERPOOL STREET STATION, LONDON

2010-05-21T07:09:00.001-07:00

geometric shapes in the roof at Liverpool Street Stn

JAQUINTA: QUILTS AT THE V&A, LONDON

2010-04-24T03:54:00.001-07:00

geometric sketches based upon the quilts at the V&A

QUILTS AT THE V&A

2010-04-24T03:44:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I went to the Quilts exhibition at the V&A

where I saw a range of work from the 1700s to the

present day .... of particular interest to me was the

work by current artists who had used quilting

methods to reinterpret quilting.... these artists are:

Jo Budd

Diana Harrison

Dinah Prentice

Pauline Burbidge

Jane Whiteley

JAQUINTA: DRAWING BOARD

2010-04-17T05:27:00.000-07:00

Back to the drawing board: the indiscipline of drawing (doodle).

JAQUINTA: PAINTING

2010-04-01T04:31:00.000-07:00

images inspired by Van Doesburg stain glass windows

2010-03-15T03:43:00.000-07:00

industrial

2010-03-08T11:48:00.000-08:00

JAQUINTA: URBAN SKETCHING

2010-02-22T10:40:00.000-08:00

2010-01-30T06:16:00.000-08:00