After last year's solo exhibition I felt I needed to re-invent the way I was painting. It's been an evolution rather than a revolution, but I'm nearly ready for this year's exhibition. I've been trying to bring colour into my drawing and have worked seriously with chalk pastels, both on landscape drawings and with my life drawing.
My life drawing has been going well using charcoal, so I was keen to link that approach with my landscape work. I wanted to bring in colour so that drawings would serve as closer studies for paintings. My intention is to use drawings as an intermediate stage, rather than working directly from landscape photographs, to make my large acrylic landscapes. The drawings below all try that approach.
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| Tre Cime de Lavaredo |
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| Flying Buttress, Stanage Edge |
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| Robin Hood's Buttress, Stanage Edge |
The colour is a little experimental - for me they still betray their photographic starting point. Once the spring comes I'll be taking my drawing outside, because working directly from the landscape is a habit I've lost in recent years.
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