On Christmas Day my twin sister Gillian announced that she had heard somewhere that people that are left handed die on average nine years earlier than right handers. Given that both her partner, his father and I are all left handed and were all there, I asked her what would she do without us all. She replied that as she would know she only had nine years left she'ld make sure and do everything she'd ever wanted to do in her life! Not quite the response I had expected! I have heard that left handers are more creative than right handers, remembering Gillian's stick men from her school days I tend to agree!
I'm having a break from watercolour and working on a pencil drawing - a portrait. I've included the outline here to demonstrate a before and after effect. I used a photo that was enlarged by lovely Roy to A4 size then I used tracing down paper to trace it onto paper - many artists do this, although purist's probably think this isn't real art; if Hockney can do it then so can I, why make things difficult for yourself! I found the picture on Google Images and contacted the owner by email asking for permission to use it, to date they haven't come back to me so I decided to go ahead anyway. If they say no I'll have to remove it from this website.
I'm having a break from watercolour and working on a pencil drawing - a portrait. I've included the outline here to demonstrate a before and after effect. I used a photo that was enlarged by lovely Roy to A4 size then I used tracing down paper to trace it onto paper - many artists do this, although purist's probably think this isn't real art; if Hockney can do it then so can I, why make things difficult for yourself! I found the picture on Google Images and contacted the owner by email asking for permission to use it, to date they haven't come back to me so I decided to go ahead anyway. If they say no I'll have to remove it from this website.
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