Simon's Blog

For some one who spent many hours working with brushes I find myself less and less able to use the package. Some how I no longer can connect with the process. For me it is all too clinical and detached. I know like the touch feel and dirt of making an actual drawing on paper rather than the antiseptic cation via the iPad. I loose patience with myself and my ability to create an image – for me it is just too complicated way of making a drawing. In short I suspect it is me rather than anything else. My how I have changed!

This is a case in point. I have made a number of drawings of this photograph of Jim Broadbent with a varying degree of success however none had the detached feel of this work. Is this a good drawing or something else – well I think that is a lungless question. What I do know is that I didn’t derive the same amount of pleasure from it’s creation and I think it shows.

Sent from my iPad