"Apart from the fact that they float ,there's little to associate these giants with the romantic notion of a vessel. rather than roaming the seas, they're locked into rigid routines......They're standardised to the width of the Panama Canal; ship made to fit a world made to fit them. They might as well have been chopped off the production line...... They are ghost ships, devoid of life, save for the shadowy figures seen through letterbox slots let into their flanks."
"The Sea Inside", Philip Hoare.
Philip lives alongside and swims daily in Southampton Water.
Yesterday I sketched this container ship leaving Southampton water as coast was buffeted by a gale.
I've been drawing and painting for as long as I can remember;in that sense it is part of who Iam , in my soul. Only when I 've tried drawing something or someone do I sense that I know what I have seen. This blog I hope illustrates what I mean.
Tuesday 1 December 2015
Tuesday 25 August 2015
Demolition and construction : a journal in sketches
Today; demolition evolves into construction, the site is still being cleared but a drill is being used for foundations;
below are a series of onsite sketches as I've observed the demolition of an old ship building unit to make way for a new unit manufacturing pipes and high tec equipment for the marine industry. The sketches are brush pens, sketch pens and markers on A4 pad
below are a series of onsite sketches as I've observed the demolition of an old ship building unit to make way for a new unit manufacturing pipes and high tec equipment for the marine industry. The sketches are brush pens, sketch pens and markers on A4 pad
Thursday 11 June 2015
A time to break down and a time to build up
Series of sketches done at a demolition site Trafalgar wharf, just outside Portsmouth, Uk. I start with this the last in the series, because of the conversation with the guy on the right, "I'm normally working in construction rather than demolition, but this makes a change for me:
"everything has a time.......
a time to break down and a time to build up........
a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones together"
Ecclesiastes, chp 3
"everything has a time.......
a time to break down and a time to build up........
a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones together"
Ecclesiastes, chp 3
Monday 25 May 2015
Summertime cricket and it's looking good for England against New Zealand in the Test match
it was actually a very grey afternoon as I cycled past this local cricket match, watercolour 11ins x7ins on NOT 140lb.
it was based on very hurried pen and brush pen sketch in moleskin pad when I got home
it was based on very hurried pen and brush pen sketch in moleskin pad when I got home
Thursday 7 May 2015
2 views of St Mary's church, Portchester, UK
original sketch: St Mary's Church Portchester; days of strong winds; brush pen and fine liner in moleskin journal
the second was done in comfort indoors; watercolour on coldpressed 300g/m2
for those interested in church history and architecture: St Mary's is a classic Norman church built 1133 for the monastic community which located in the grounds of Portchester castle. The community moved out twenty years later; the church over the centuries lost its south transept hence the odd shape, and the original chancel removed and replaced by a much smaller one
the second was done in comfort indoors; watercolour on coldpressed 300g/m2
for those interested in church history and architecture: St Mary's is a classic Norman church built 1133 for the monastic community which located in the grounds of Portchester castle. The community moved out twenty years later; the church over the centuries lost its south transept hence the odd shape, and the original chancel removed and replaced by a much smaller one
Sunday 26 April 2015
Sunday 8 March 2015
post card size art
bus traveller: watercolour
making the point in a sermon: ink
tug boat respray :ink
marina shapes at low tide: watercolour
making the point in a sermon: ink
tug boat respray :ink
marina shapes at low tide: watercolour
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