Still Life, Hotel Sirius balcony, Madeira - 14 August 1992
(2B mechanical pencil in A4 sketchbook)
The day after drawing this table of stuff on our hotel balcony, I decided I'd have a go at the hills to the north of the hotel:
Hill above Funchal, 15 August 1992
(Watercolour and oil pastel on 7 x 9 in.watercolour paper)
Some time later I put the two together and made this painting:
Madeira (Oil on board, 28 x 14 ins)
Not entirely successful as a painting, but it was important at the time. It's still on my living room wall.
Beautiful drawing!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much, Alex.
ReplyDeleteA perfect demonstration of using your sketches for a final piece!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sandra, for your kind comment.
ReplyDeleteMany art references in this work! Italian renaissance, Japanese, bit of Cezanne...all in all, very interesting and yes, I could live with this!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Liz. I wish I could claim that the references were deliberate, but at least I can acknowledge that they are all part of my visual vocabulary.
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