A revisit of the cupboard exercise (but with the fridge!). Two vanishing points this time – one for the fridge interior and one for the door. The door actually has another one – far off […]

Colour pencil on white card. An electric precision eraser is giving me new mark-making options – especially the ability to precisely lift off dots of material – so little dots are working overtime here – […]

Kollwitz. A copy of an early self-portrait – unburdened by the cares weighing on later works. The original is in pen and ink so she must have nailed every stroke first time, every time – […]

Another exercise from Experimental Drawing by Robert Kaupelis. The challenge here was to render some eggs in multiple colours but whose local colour should read as white. Coloured pencil on grey paper. The reflected green […]

Trying here an exercise from Experimental Drawing by Robert Kaupelis. The direction is to: set up a still life; capture some horizontals, verticals and diagonals; apply tones to the resultant shapes in a random fashion […]

Exploring composition … All unbalanced in terms of overall picture composition but I’m as much interested in the shadows as the rest. I’ve chosen the set-up bottom right (against instinct) because the lighting of the […]

Ah… vacado. A rotting specimen. Daylight from behind and a small lamp to the left. The hollow in the right half of the fruit doesn’t immediately present itself as such (to me anyway). Why? What […]

Single-point perspective with the horizon line at the bottom shelf front edge. I have given the actual visible bits a darker outline and added some shading to the cupboard itself but not the objects within.