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PortraitS: 

MOSTLY Drawings...

"How can one learn the truth by thinking?  — As one learns to see a face better if one draws it." 

Wittgenstein; Zettel, §255.

Portrait drawings contents

• recent  K.L. (2006)

• recent  Björn (2006)

• Sarah (1997-2006)

• recent  Uhlan, champion de France (2006)

• Nali Gruber!! (2003)

• Lyell Cresswell

• F.J. (2001)

• recent  Nicole (2006)

• Luncheon at The Chesser (2003)

• Samm - A4 (2003)

• Samm - A5 (2003)

• Charlotte Songeur (1999)

• Stephen Cutts (1999)

• J. M.

• Portraits of Children

• and as for Lord Moggy...

   

  NB: There are more Portraits in the MOLESKINE sketchbooks.

Katie 

K.L. in Fayence; the waiter's biro on 2 sheets of writing paper; 17th July, 2006

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Björn Roxlin

  21 x 29.5 cms

MontBlanc blue ink on folded paper, 17th April 2006

5

Sarah

Prout's ink on Canson; 25th March 2006

oil on canvas; 1999

two quickies in paint; ripolin (household paint)on 2 panels, c.60x40 cms; 1999

too sinister by half...; oil on canvas; 1999

Drawings

the big sketch; stubby pale blue crayon on orange canson imperial paper, c.41x31"; 20th September, 1996

both thick ink on foamboard, 1997

  graphite, 1999

   Florence, April 2003

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Uhlan,

Champion de France

Uhlan; encre & pinceau séché; 30.ix.VI

dessin fait à Rocca-Sparvièra (Duranus/Coaraze), à la fête de St Michel

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H.K. 'Nali' Gruber

from a sequence after a performance of Frankenstein!!, Edinburgh x.2003

graphite on square sketchbook, 3" x 3"

for the full sequence of 18 sketches, click here

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F. J.

- an anxious progression:

"What are you up to?"	"Oh, I see."	"Ah, that's better."	"Can we finish now?"

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Lyell Cresswell

- reading on the terrace...

8" x 5¾"; graphite on Vang sketchbook, 25.x.1997

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Nicole

Naked & Warm; oil on canvas at an angle, 1994.

left: In the shower; oil on canvas, 1994.

right: In two minds...; oil & charcoal on canvas, 1995.

Recent Drawings

from a sequence, ii.2006

Omas sepia ink on paper, 65 x 51 cms

"Vénus du duvet" [2 sheets, 95x51]

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Rather a Good Luncheon with Russell...

at The Chesser, Adelaide; vii.2003

Russell Starke  

& Primo

& Lisa, wary at first...              

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Samm

What do you do on a ship? 

"And what did we see? We saw the sea!" - as the old song goes.  So, an afternoon's sketching to accompany an afternoon snoozing on board the Fulmara...

The drawings are here presented in their order of execution.

ix.2003

A4

A3

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Charlotte Songeur, 1998

- at her mathematics...

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Stephen Cutts, 1999

charcoal on paper, 1999

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J. M.

Petite mort; pencil on paper; 18" x 24"

Portraits of Children

Georgina   Max Banks

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and as for Lord Moggy —

— he has a page all of his own... 

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