Here’s Maen Bradwen, or Carreg Bica on Mynydd Drummau Mountain in Neath Port Talbot. It’s a massive stone and local legend has it that it bathes in the River Neath / Afon Nedd on Easter morning. I did this while I was travelling around South Wales with filmmaker Melvyn Williams and prehistorian Dewi Bowen while he was researching material for his latestContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday 19”
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Painting Upside Down 2
I started this painting a couple of months ago (here), working on top of a recycled canvas. I’m working upside down from a photo as I don’t see the subject clearly any more, just colours, shapes and lines, that I find easier to place accurately. It’s still pretty rough but I can see it startingContinue reading “Painting Upside Down 2”
Painting Upside Down 1.
I started this painting a couple of months ago (here), working on top of a canvas I’d recycled because I didn’t like the previous painting. Because of that, it’s quite heavily textured, which is something new for me. I’m used to working on paper, drawing and printmaking, or new stretched canvas for painting, much smootherContinue reading “Painting Upside Down 1.”
The Union Banner.
Here’s the last sketch I did at the “Cost of Living Crisis” rally in Aberdare last weekend. The old church had beautifully made Union banners around the walls. The seating was very cramped so I couldn’t move around much to see and draw, but this lovely one, from the Welsh Fire Brigades Union, was nearContinue reading “The Union Banner.”
The Man Himself
Here’s another quick sketch from the “Cost of Living” rally I went to at the weekend in Aberdare. It was a bright and sunny, but freezing, day although the converted church venue was pretty warm and jam packed. There wasn’t much space for drawing and I had to get into all sorts of positions toContinue reading “The Man Himself”
Tightly Packed
I went up to Aberdare on Saturday to a “Cost of Living” rally where Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the RMT Union was one of the speakers. I did a warm-up sketch to get started, working with the cramped conditions, peeking between tightly-packed shoulders to get a look at the speakers at the front.
#StandingStoneSunday 18
It’s #StandingStoneSunday again and this huge megalith is the Brynmaen Stone on Brynmaen Farm in Carmarthenshire. It’s been six years since I visited with pre-historian Dewi Bowen and film maker Melvyn Williams – time flies by so fast! We travelled along the route of the legendary Boar Hunt, Y Twrch Trwyth, from the story of Culhwch andContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday 18”
The Upper-Lip-Hamster.
Went to a 60th birthday party – going to a lot of these recently – and people were wearing fake moustaches. It was weird seeing normally clean-shaven mates with upper-lip-hamsters 😀 Of course, I had to have a scribble! I used a ballpoint pen into my A5 leather-bound sketchbook.
Exhibition Time!
The drawings I did at the Swansea Fringe at the back end of 2022 are now being exhibited in one of Swansea’s live music venues, The Bunkhouse. It opened tonight, work by 5 artists in the downstairs bar. The top two rows in the photo are my sketches, the two bottom rows are drawings byContinue reading “Exhibition Time!”
Pictures For An Exhibition.
I did a whole load of drawings at Crowleys Rock Bar in the Swansea Fringe back before Christmas and they’re going to be in an exhibition at another rock music venue, The Bunkhouse, in Swansea! Cool! The drawings are in my sketchbook which I don’t want to dismember, so I scanned and printed a selectionContinue reading “Pictures For An Exhibition.”
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