Simon's Blog

By posting this series it gives me chance to step back and reflect on the work and to assess where to go next. So far so good.

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A few weeks ago I picked up a wonderful catalogue of a 1991 exhibition called ‘The Artist’s Model ~ its role in British Art from Lely to Etty’. The book contains numerous prints of drawings made by artists of this period of the human form, either drawn from Life or The Antique. Now I don’t wish to become a classical painter but there is something about understanding the human form if you want to develop as a human figurative artist – which is what really interests me above all else.

So I have found a classical pose photograph and intend to try and reproduce a drawing similar to some of the greats of 18th and 19th century British art. Nothing like setting one self up to fail but if you don’t try you never progress. I suspect it will all end in tears!

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This one of the many incredible drawings created by Mark Powell. The photo stream is well worth checking out

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One of my all time favourite photographers is Irvin Penn – it is impossible for me to put in words the power of his imagery – so I decided to try and express my appreciation by attempting tp produce a similar work as a drawing – Al Pacino as Lord Byron. Well it didn’t start off as this but it just grew, as these things tend to, into a gothic drawing. Well that is how I see it anyway.

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Scanning through the paper this morning an idea struck me – why not make a joint sketch of Capello and Hodgson together. The Capello sketch works but I am not at all sure about the Hodgson. Hay ho.

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I, like numerous people before, are having some building work done. On the whole the work is progressing well and seems to be of a really good standard. However, there is one aspect that is making me scream – the skip. The skip is sitting in our drive awaiting to be collected. It has been sitting there for almost a week waiting but still no show from the skip contractors. They promise the main builders that it will be collected in the morning and guess what – it wasn’t. I complain to the project manager who complains to the skip contractors – nothing happens. It is enough to make you want to scream!

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