I called in on the last day of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Prize exhibition. Here is a quick pen sketch on brown packing paper, finished at home with conte crayon, of a ceramic by Jasmina Ajzenkol. I was attracted by its oblate spheroid (flattened like the Earth) shape rising to two points like jaws. Behind is a bronze bust of Lancelot “Capability” Brown, eighteenth century landscape gardener, by Robert Page.
The trees are in the nearby St Paul’s churchyard, a place I have illustrated several times previously, with links here, here and here.
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I’d like to see more still lives and interiors. You manage to take in everything in front of you and their interesting relationships. A clever eye.
Truth is I’d photographed it also. I hadn’t planned on putting in the background but when I looked at the photo, I realised the predominantly pink picture behind and the straight black lines worked well with the ceramic. So clever curation in the gallery perhaps. The pleasure of the conte crayons I find is that I can adjust the strength of the tones easily, so I could mute the background to the right level
a clever eye still took the photo ☺
I’ll accept that 🙂
Thanks
Hope you’re well
I will email you re a possible workshop I noticed
Yes do so. I’ve got nothing in the pipeline for this year
hehehe love this 😀
I love the juxtaposition!