“Noticed” Once I photograph a painting or drawing, it actually looks quite different to my eye in a small digital image to what I am seeing when I’m working on it. This is like the little tricks of holding your painting upside down, or offering it to the mirror (love that phrase “offering up the shelf to the wall”, as…
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The Lemon Tree
After returning from a magical Olympic Trip in London (650 miles driven all told) its back to Earth and preparing for C-Art, Cumbria’s Open Studio event this year. I am open Weds to Sun inclusive during both weeks 12 noon until 5pm each day. Not Thursday ’til Sunday as it says in the brochure! There’ll be flapjacks and fresh coffee…
CSI @ She Just Popped
She Just Popped CSI in action again. “She was such a bubbly character,” beside the waterfall. She “just popped” according to witnesses, and CSI are called in to analyse and examine the residue clues. I posted this is we make the long journey from our tiny village in Cumbria to the Olympics in London! I should have brought the But…
Look what the cat brought in…
A happy ending to the juvenile thrush that Jeremy (the cat) brought in. The next day she was sitting up and raring to go (unlike the previous cat-incumbent, who has flown onto the other side during the night). We took her into the field and found a hidden bed of grass to let her into. Then on Friday, the puppy…
Life Drawing for its own sake
Yesterday I attended a Life Drawing class in Papcastle, and the unusual thing was that I was there as a “drawer” only, rather than a tutor. I have been teaching Life Drawing since 2004 and thoroughly enjoy it but the opportunity to draw and specifically not teach was one of the reasons I decided to play with my Inktense pencils…
CSI @ Alnwick Garden
A friend’s daughter’s birthday was spent at the inspirational Alnwick Garden; my first visit there as well. Beautiful and restful yet exciting and mesmerising and contemplative and so well thought out with vista after vista opening up round each bend or turn you make. I took some of my little people, whom are currently called But Perfectly Formed (thanks Spot!)…
A Major Scale
I have been collecting these tiny folk for about two or three years now ever since I came across the artist Slinkachu and his Little People. Have since found out that other artists make “Microworlds” and have wandered off on a path of my own…
Samson the Friesian
Welcome to my first post on this blog (the previous one is from a starter blog!). Thank you for visiting 🙂 I will be putting on a variety of bit and bobs – mainly to do with my artwork and projects. It will take me a little bit of time to get used to how it work but stay with…
Art Classes
1 Developments in Drawing (This picture sold at Highhead Gallery, Ivegill, but I don’t know to whom! If you do, then I’d love to know who you are! You can contact me via this website by putting “alex@” in front of charcoalhorse.co.uk) Vine and Roses, Angel Lane, Penrith Five sessions. Thursday mornings: 10.00 – 12.00pm 1: May 3rd 2: May…
About Drawing Horses, Making and Musing
I draw, I make, I like to think too! Love a good tale, coffee and the sunshine – mainly the latter because we have a shorter supply of it in Cumbria than maybe other parts of the world! And then there are the Horses… I am an artist who live in a small village in the shadow of Cross Fell,…