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06/04/2019 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Part 2 doesn’t include landscape but my sketchbook does as I’ve kept up the impetus, and one sketch drew comment for its looseness of mark. Could I maybe try that on a larger scale and still keep the informality? This is the sketch. It’s from a photo I took a little while ago of a round hill called Tin Pots for reasons people locally couldn’t quite pin down for me. It’s on my jogging/walking/nattering route so I see it nearly every day. In the summer, it’s quite bright and yellow, this time of year the colours are brownish and the … Continue reading Tutorial follow up

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Part 3 Project 2, landscape

13/03/2019 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Breugel‘s Winter landscape with skaters and bird trap 1505; Monet‘s Grand Canal, Venice 1908; and Stuppin‘s Catskill Moon 2013. Three landscape artists whose images caught my eye when I was trawling for examples of the genre. I already knew of Breugel and Monet but hadn’t come across Stuppin before and actually thought it was one of our local artists, Sarah Duffield who uses very bright and largely unrealistic colours for her work. I was driven to have a go myself on the black sugar paper I’d pasted into my sketchbook, just to see what would happen. These are Faber-Castell pencils and … Continue reading Part 3 Project 2, landscape

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Part 3 Project 2, landscape