Drawing is a large part of my practice.
I would break it into two approaches one observing from life, nature, portraits, life drawings, the other drawing from my ‘head’ which I guess is ‘making it up’ this is a large part of my work. I think that one informs and enriches the other.
My most influential teacher, Sam Mullen on portfolio preparation course, taught what he humorously called ‘sensible drawing’ this was how to slow down and observe and only draw what you see, working from a line and later tone. I have spent a lot of time drawing portraits including for a few years working as a portrait artist on the street , drawing fast sketches. I enjoy life drawing.
A lot of my subjects on the work from my head are birds, dogs, ships houses, clowns, circus and faces, for me these subjects are symbols with their own meaning.
The technique I often start with in drawing is a mono-print approach where I do one drawing and put a wet sheet onto and take a print of the first drawing, this has a nice effect but also allows a large production of work.
I love drawing.
