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.

 

charcoal portrait of F.J.

 

ink portrait of Björn

 

see also Portraits of Children!

Peggy

 

page i) Peggy listening to music

 

Katie 

 

K.L. in Fayence; 17th July, 2006

done with the waiter's biro on 2 sheets of writing paper

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Björn Roxlin

 

  21 x 29.5 cms

MontBlanc blue ink on folded paper, 17th April 2006

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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.

 

Recent Drawings

from a moody 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

- at her mathematics...

 

   

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and as for Lord Moggy —

 

 

— he has a page all of his own... 

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