Under drawing for We Shall be Near You Today I am sharing the graphite under-drawing for a new piece called We Shall be Near You. I borrowed the title from a poem by Yeats. In the context of this piece, the words refer to the idea of friendship and loyalty, the nearness of others. I’m... Continue Reading →
The Plague Tree, 2020, ink on paper, 27 x 19 inches Back in March, when Covid 19 started to seriously impact our lives, I knew I wanted to do a piece of art as a way of processing what was happening. I had a large sheet of watercolour paper mounted on an archival board that... Continue Reading →
One of the pieces I'm working on this fall is The Wedding of the Earth and Sky. It will be entirely stippled with my trusty Rapidograph pens. I am pleased with the progress so far. Apart from the pencilling, these images represent about 4-5 hours work thus far. I'm already penciling two more pieces in... Continue Reading →
I am offering 20% off original art on my web store until Sunday, May 19. This is a great opportunity to pick up a smaller original work for a great price. Several have already sold. I won't be offering sale prices again until the fall. Here is just one of the pieces currently available.
This is an iPhone snap of a watercolor I did a few weeks ago. I plan to do a version of it in oil in due course. It was necessary to suspend my use of oil for a while as the products I was using led to some pretty trippy - but ultimately not fun... Continue Reading →
This is a new drawing called WATER COLUMN. It is available for sale on my webstore. WATER COLUMN is an original pen and ink pointillism drawing by Richard. It was created with .18 & .25 Rotring pens on 200 G Cranson Watercolour Paper. The page size is 8.5" x 11." This piece, FORAGER, is also... Continue Reading →
New work! This is the most recent of a series of small pen and ink drawings of board. Now, it's time to return to my large drawing Foundling. I'll return to these little guys later. Richard.
I'm busy creating new drawings. I just finished the top one, Wingless, today. I'll be posting it in my webstore this weekend along with my drawing Prong - see earlier post. The other drawing Irridis was done for a friend. Richard.
This is a detail of the piece I am working at on this cold, cloudy November day. It's a small figure but it took 3 hours to ink. The reason being that the brush I was using is superfine, and though the godless jpeg compression would not have you believe it, the gradations are quite... Continue Reading →
Update: The Veil is sold! The Veil is a cross hatched drawing done with a dip pen and then painted with acrylic inks. The drawing was done last year but the coloring was done today. One of these days I'd love to illustrate a book in this technique. This piece is on sale. If you... Continue Reading →
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