10 November 2012 19:00 GMT 14:00 EST
oil on board I really wanted to have another go at the image of my dad, because the first attempt was fairly wooden and unsuccessful in many ways. You can […]
Category Archives: Contextualisation
2 March 2013 23:42 GMT 18:42 EST
Oil on aluminium-coated panel. No matter how much I adjusted this photo in Photoshop, I couldn’t get the colours to come out properly. There’s actually a lot of pink in […]
In the studio
I’m not sure I should even post this painting on the web site, except to document a failed experiment. I don’t know how this went so wrong, but I decided […]
Male model sitting
Life drawing, 45 min
Unmade bed
Drawing by Adolph Menzel. I love unmade beds as a subject. In this one, Menzel really has the values right, and you can feel the heaviness of the duvet and […]
Get a classical atelier education from the internet!
I’ve always been fascinated by the soap opera comics which are a feature of American newspapers. Sometimes the drawings for these strips are amazing, in the best comic book tradition, […]
Head of a young apostle, Raphael
This drawing must be one of the most expensive ever to change hands, if it does in fact change hands. Aparently the culture minister has delayed its export in the […]
The artist and the subject in “How Should a Person Be?”
After wanting to read Sheila Heti’s much-hyped “novel from life” How Should a Person Be? for months, I finally broke down and ordered it at the end of February. When […]
Ars Longa
Vita brevis Ars longa1 Hours no longer Ours At my back I always hear You know the next line2 Look on my children of Silence and slow time3 And despair4 […]
50 shades of black, and the great [post]Modernists
On Thursday I went to the Manet show at the RA and a show on at the Barbican documenting the fruitful creative friendship between Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, […]
Johanna Shepherd Fine Art 
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