Manhattan Bridge

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I like this James, some tricky perspectives!

Thank you Heather. Yes, I think it resulted in several vanishing points!

You managed the different perspectives so well James. A great sense of depth and distance here.

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20/09/2022
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Manhattan Bridge, New York City. Urban landscape — a new venture for me and well outside my comfort zone. A struggle to get the perspective right without it looking obsessively precise and unartistic. Drawn with Rohrer & Klingner ink on Canson cold-pressed paper stained with yellow Inktense and then shaded with Payne’s grey.

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James Underwood

Other than sketching on agenda papers during tedious committee meetings, I started drawing and painting only after several years in retirement. Then, almost 70 years old, I first attended an art course. Still so much to learn, thankfully! — “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is…

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