If you recognise the header of this post you would be right in thinking it’s the title of a painting by Vincent Van Gogh – painted in 1888. I’ve added a link to it below so you can remind yourself of it or view it for the first time.
Category: Art
Brierfield During Motorway Construction
More from my sketch books. Here are three double-pages in pencil and water colour, showing Brierfield, Lancashire with the M65 motorway under construction. They were all drawn and painted on the site – I was sitting in a field reached from Cuckstool Lane.
C. 1977
Watercolour Drawing
I posted this picture on my Facebook page and was asked about the technique I’d used for watercolour “drawing”. Well, a good sable brush helps: it’s easier to draw with a brush than a pen as there is less resistance from the paper. Another tip: if you are drawing plants it is best to make upward strokes as that is the way a plant grows, and use a full brush.
Christmas Shopping
Here is another picture on the theme of Newsagents’ Shops – a seasonal image that I will use to wish all visitors to this site a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Drawings at The Science Museum
When I was a student at the Royal College of Art I would visit the various museums in the area and occasionally sketch interesting exhibits. Here are a few drawings from that era, circa 1956. Continue reading “Drawings at The Science Museum”
Mill Engine Drawings
Here are drawings of two mill engines, with details of their history. When these two mills were operational, I drew them both in situ from two different viewpoints as shown.
Images of Manchester
I thought I’d share some photos from my scrap-books – I took a lot of pictures of buildings over the years, internal and external views. Here are some from trips to Manchester.
270 Degree Portrait
In this water colour painting I created what is usually impossible in a standard portrait – where the subject is either full face, three-quarter profile or full profile. Here is a 270 Degree Portrait!
Read All About It!
I found a few other paintings that depict the way that news was disseminated in the past.
A street news seller goes about his daily business hawking newspapers with shouts that were barely intelligible. In this memory I have highlighted the Suez Crisis of 1956 – often the sight of the news placard or the hawker holding up a freshly printed evening news was the first anyone heard of what was happening in the world when they came off shift in the mills.
Summer of ’69
In the Summer of 1969 we went on a long camping holiday through Germany, Bavaria, and Italy. Our destination was a small seaside resort on the Adriatic coast, called Porto Recanati. During the weeks we stayed at the campsite, the children learned to dive under the waves with their Italian friends and bring up starfish which they dried out on the sand, (probably cruel when I think about it now), and empty sea urchin cases.