'CLICK!' (Noir femme fatale).

Comments

Excellent drawings Lew, high quality as usual.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Sun 13 Sep 09:18:13

I'm seeing Sam Spade, Hank Janson, Dick Tracy and the rest. Fine work Lew.

Posted by Jim Morris on Sun 13 Sep 09:34:40

Excellent lighting on a superb piece of work.

Posted by Stephen Kelly on Sun 13 Sep 09:41:19

Great faces Lewis

Posted by Heather Love on Sun 13 Sep 09:44:21

Great characterisation Lew, could that be modelled on "Big Bob Mitchum" love all these old black and white movies when you could at least hear the dialogue!! good use of mixed media.

Posted by Linda Drury on Sun 13 Sep 10:40:00

Thanks for your feedback everybody. Yes Linda, he IS based on Bob Mitchum...I thought I'd changed him a lot...clearly not enough.

Posted by Lewis Cooper on Sun 13 Sep 10:45:13

Just superb Lewis.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Sun 13 Sep 12:41:09

Long look Lewis. I think his gun would be better pointing towards his tie. Looks a bit awkward in that position.

Posted by John Graham Inkson on Sun 13 Sep 16:11:35

Agree with Linda, great characters evocative of the black and whites era.

Posted by Richard Cooper on Sun 13 Sep 17:27:03

The black and white of film noir is brilliant Lewis. So skilfully drawn.

Posted by Carole Kelly on Sun 13 Sep 18:19:59

Very redolent of the period - I thought Raymond Chandler as I saw the thumbnail.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Sun 13 Sep 18:47:02

Oh this is just great Lewis!

Posted by Russell Edwards on Sun 13 Sep 19:23:57

Great work Lewis - Just proves you don’t need official art training to be able to draw this well!

Posted by Marilyn De la Cruz on Sun 13 Sep 21:39:24

Thanks again to all who've taken the trouble to comment. It's much appreciated.

Posted by Lewis Cooper on Mon 14 Sep 04:31:09

Really good, Lewis

Posted by Maureen Sherman on Mon 14 Sep 15:25:00

LOVE THIS ARTWORK.....

Posted by ANDREW C Stewart on Tue 17 Nov 11:26:25

Yup! That's Mitchum all right. A hat's not a hat until it's tilted! Just like the 'comics' I used to read. Although I don't admit to knowing who Hank Jansen was! :) Nice work Lewis. John

Posted by John Walker on Thu 10 Dec 14:40:31

Hang on Studio Wall

13/09/2020

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Another go at the 'noir' style (from the old black and white movies). This is supposed to show the moment when the Private-Eye hears a gun cocked behind him. 16 x 12 inches. Pen, watercolour, coloured pencil, and a little gouache...so, mixed media.

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Lewis Cooper

Self taught. Love drawing. Like to make pictures up, without using reference pics, often in cartoon style. I do other pictures where I do use reference. I'm knocking on a bit, born in 1940 in Greenwich, London. Retired, and loving it.

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