Up Cuthbert Street, 27 October 1991
(2B pencil in A4 sketchbook)
I'd recently discovered the paintings of Wayne Thiebaud when I drew this. Trying to capture something of his vertiginous San Francisco views, I chose one of the steeper streets in Gateshead and looked up Cuthbert Street to the houses on Bensham Road.
I don't think I really caught Thiebaud's essence, but looking at this drawing now, complete with colour notes, I think it might still make an interesting painting.
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Here I have to SUMMON all of my Ever So Sensitive Artistic Sensibility - born of my large Collection of Bell Stuff - to say that ... in saying " I don't think I really caught Thiebaud's essence, but looking at this drawing now, complete with colour notes, I think it might still make an interesting painting." You clearly realize, at an Un Conscious Level of True Artistic Sensibility that .... What you really Need is the San Fransisco /Gates head equivalent of ...
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/343960/Bullitt-Movie-Clip-Car-Chase.html
Well, someone just HAD to say it didn't they?
No, probably not, and the traffic is usually too bad to allow it.
Fantastic sketch!
Thanks again, Alex.
I knew this area quite well when I worked in Gateshead and I was christened in St Cuthbert's. I think you've captured the place well. There were some houses in the area, probably long gone now, with very steep stairs to the front door that would have made a good subject too - on Bank St I think.
St Cuthbert's was my parish church and I used to go to the Scouts (22nd St Cuthbert's) at Lady Vernon School next door on Derwentwater Road.
I remember Bank Street - I went to junior school with a boy who lived there.As you say, long gone now.
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