Tag: drawing
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Drawings – Derelict Bottle Ovens
This is drawing number five of derelict listed Bottle Ovens where over 20,000 people lost their jobs. Johnson Brothers pottery was one of the most successful Staffordshire potteries, importing many of their tableware products across the pond to the United States, doing so successfully for seven decades from the 1890s to the 1960s with the […]
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Drawings-Pot Bank Series (2)
This second drawing of Price and Kensington is looking up the Trent and Mersey canal, the canal was used by barges which were loaded with ware and taken around the country, it was also used to bring in kaolin (china clay) to the various pottery manufacturers. As well as pottery the canal was used by other […]
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Drawings – Pot Bank Series (1)
This is the first in a series of Pot Bank drawings left over during the destruction of Stoke On Trent’s pottery industry, in which in 1979, over 20,000 people subsequently lost their jobs. In earlier times most of Stoke On Trent was covered with these bottle ovens bellowing out smoke after being fired up and […]
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Drawings – Charcoal portrait study on paper.
It is said that you can count your true and trusted friends on one hand, this is one of them, I have known Fred for a lifetime who is a fine human being and has been added to my drawings page. Pencil on paper 11.50 x 8.50 in Commissions welcome, ask for details More drawings […]
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New Portrait Drawing
This is Les, aka Elsie, who moved into my village some years ago. Elsie because his middle name is Colin…which makes his initials LC…it was his nickname when at school. There are many strings to Les’s bow, as well as being a designer, photographer, writer, speaker, Les decided about ten years ago to launch his […]
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New portrait drawing
A head study of Ed, added to the drawings page https://wp.me/P2Ijh6-1O1 and a continuation in doing without colour with the sole intention of dealing with light and shade. Photo taken on my iphone whilst having a pint and talking nonsense in the local.
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New Pencil Drawing
Pencil drawing on paper 10 x 12 in To view more drawings, click here To view paintings click here
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‘Hattie’
This drawing is of Hattie, short for Harriet, to be presented to my youngest daughter and partner Steve on Christmas day. Earlier on I decided to revive my dormant drawing skills and have included this picture of Harriet to my drawings page https://wp.me/P2Ijh6-1O1 , hope you like it. Commissions welcome, any subject, contact me […]