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George, I hope I haven't put you off - any medium that works is fine by me; that is a rather 'exciting' blue, but presumably one could overlay it with black, or darker blues. However, I'm sure your work with the fude pen IS far more enjoyable, and your drawing would benefit from a bit of proper ink.... because, as per usual, your composition is excellent.
I've remembered that I used biros/bics/ anything I could lay my hands on including those War Office indelible pencils that so many demobbed soldiers seemed to have a stack of - mostly for cartoon drawings based on the Beano, or Illustrated Classics - or something. Then moved on to the standard HB and 2B pencils, plus those felt-tipped sticks of liquid ink I've not seen in decades ... though they may still be about. Anyway, enough waddling down memory lane - I think Denise's biro drawing reflects her great skill with any medium she encounters, but I'm not tempted to follow her lead, when I have cigar boxes full of dip pens, a couple of Fude pens, carbon and charcoal pencils: I bet I WILL have a go with a biro.... for something other than demented doodles; but doubt I'll produce anything worth showing.
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Relax Robert, your words of wisdom would only encourage me, never put me off. I just didn't like the feel of the ballpoint pen when sketching with it. In future I shall use it only for writing and signing cheques etc. Give me the Fude pens or good old fashioned dip pens and proper ink any time. I do actually remember a long time ago my one other time sketching with a ballpoint, on my way back from a cricket match. I saw a view of a village in Somerset which I scribbled down on a scrap of paper using said ballpoint.
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Yesterday’s plein air sketch around my local canal, a few minutes from my home… keeping local because of the fuel issues, hopefully soon to be resolved! I won’t hold my breath!
I posted this on the gallery this morning, I don’t know why I bother, there’s just little or no interest in sketches…I don’t understand why - but we soldier on regardless…
Rear of Radnorshire Wildlife Trust Hides. Watermans fountain pen and Watermans ink
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Alan - I always look at your sketches, and usually make a response; but there's so often rather little to say beyond "wish I'd done that....". I suppose paintings are likely to attract more attention - but for those of us who are, or try to be, artists, the sketch should always repay study - because they're so individual, and to a greater extent than paintings (arguably) more revealing of technique from which one can learn. E.g., it's always of interest to look at sketches by yourself, George Cutter, Denise Cat, Marjorie Firth (who mostly gives us paintings rather than sketches) and compare the way different techniques work.
Colour always attracts, though; to revert to the world I used to inhabit to such an intense extent, a colleague of mine always pushed up the expense of putting out electoral material by insisting on "a splash of colour" (a bit easier to do now than it was back in the dusty corridors of time); one might think that it's the words that matter and they should work in plain black and white - but we all know they don't... I knew I'd find a connection between painting and politics one day....
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I remember Sister Wendy Becket. She used to educate us as in what the master painting are all about. She did have a wonderful insight. I have never forgotten her words. “We are bombarded with images but we have no idea of what they are all about.” We only glance, but there again there are billions of images on the internet. It’s all fast, fast, fast. I cannot see the enjoyment in that. It’s good to have artist work on the forum here, but I feel its getting to the point of an over load. One cannot digest what is on view. May be I am just a black sheep as they say. There could be trouble ahead lol
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Mmm, I know what you mean John. Let’s think…there’s our personal work which we practise, work in progress to look at, the gallery, daily sketches and artists ( which we’ve never perhaps come across before) to learn about. Personally, not enough time to do it all…..it’s not an excuse but it may be why I can’t contribute to it all….then there’s family and day to day keeping up….however, I feel lucky that I have all this to choose from.😄
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I've put so little on the Gallery for a fair old while now that I can't be accused of overloading the picture component, at least; and one of the reasons for that is precisely that I've felt overloaded; overfed to the point of being satiated. At the same time, one can't very well ask people to post less - and I still hope that they don't. The forum and Gallery fluctuate greatly over the months and years - we get new people looking in, who stay; others who look in and go; paintings that are so good they excite envy; and others which ..... well; don't.
Of course, I have no answer to this, if it needs answering; it's a natural ebb and flow. I would like to see a better balance between drawing and painting, though, even recognizing that painting IS drawing, rather than colouring-in; and that colour can be conveyed by monochrome - if the drawing is sufficiently proficient, the brain will help us to see it in colour (I don't find much to recommend in colourized films, either - as a by the way: not sure if that's really relevant). So maybe the answer is to pick and choose - concentrate on one's major areas of interest, and thus avoid getting too swamped - mind you, if that IS an answer, it's not necessarily one I apply to my own use of the site; I'm greedy, and like to guzzle all of it.... Contributing though: I think I've got out of the habit ... winter making photography that much more difficult has probably stayed my hand.... then there's this knowledge that other people's sketches are so much better than mine, because most of mine are intended to give information for paintings rather than to be works in their own right.
I think you'll probably find half a dozen totally contradictory arguments tucked into that lot.....
