Still life sketchbook.

 

Above: "The joy of movement" I think the commercial says. Really, life in the UK now is about patching oneself up before going back into the fray, because getting medical attention is virtually impossible.

 

Above: Breakfast every morning is porridge (of course) with blueberries & Canadian syrup. My Scottish grandfather would not approve. For him it had to be salt. (Of course).

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Twitter / X #sketchbook.

 

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March sketchbook.

 

 

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Sketching inside & outside.

 

 

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#sketchjanuary 2020

 From #sketchjanuary to #stilldecember, Twitter has an art hashtag for each month. As a personal challenge I am intending to produce several artworks per month through 2020 using those tags.

The days go by. 2

 My sketchbook pages are actually visual diaries.

"A chair is a difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Thomas Chippendale is famous". ( Mies van der Rohe).

"Our children will think of bananas as green or something teacher used to demonstrate condoms. Fine. Their children will think tigers and gorillas were mythical creatures like dragons which never truly existed. Not fine". (Ian Gordon Craig).

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#thedailysketch on Twitter.

 

Sketchbook pieces for the Twitter hashtags have been my only art activity of late. The mixed media / collage approach to these sees them also function as a pictorial journal.

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Sketchbook.

 A few sketch book pieces as we reach the end of another year.

 

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Put it on a Postcard 2

 

 

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Sketching in January. #sketchjanuary.

January’s Twitter theme for art was #sketchjanuary. My sketches focused on some of my musical heroes.

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Still (life) December #stilldecember.

The Twitter theme for art was #stilldecember, as in still life. Amongst my contributions was a drawing based on the sad headline announcing the death of Nelson Mandela. Of lesser merit to me personally was a drawing of peanut butter on toast. (A weakness of mine). However, The Painters Online newsletter selected that one (bottom below) for their publication, asking me to write a few words about the process of drawing.

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Winter changes into Spring.

 

February was too cold to remember what I used to do in February. But I'm sure it didn't involve keeping warm in one room, as the snow piled up outside. It only encouraged me to get up late, put a fire on, and be too easily distracted by menial tasks. Before too long it was time for bed. I hate dark nights.

March began by being bitterly sunny. Last year’s geranium on my bathroom window stretched its neck to impossible heights, trying to reach sunlight, and needing to get new roots into New Year soil. No chance of that yet. I re-assure my hot water bottle it won’t be long before it can return to its summer hibernation spot under the kitchen sink, but every evening further rubber particles from its decaying insides spill out onto the white porcelain basin. I think it’s terminal.

Above: Spring Daffodils. Acrylic painting on brown wrapping paper.

All text, pros, photos & artwork, copyright Ian Gordon Craig.