dougofakkad

https://dougfineart.wordpress.com Includes pretty much all the paintings I still have in my posession, a number of charcoal drawings, a section for life drawing and a wee expository few paragraphs on the subject of the tower blocks paintings and the experience of making them. I hope to expand the exhibitions section at some point when I can harvest more photos from them (I lost loads a few years ago) and make another exposition for the church paintings, as they're a different experience altogether. And the drawings, come to think of it.

A new note and a few things from Kenneth Clark about impressionism. -Don't stop making marks; keep up the pace. If you slow down you risk stopping, and if you stop you risk not starting again. This also keeps all the elements close together, Give yourself time to think and you risk separating them. -You're not copying, you're making. Drawings aren't facsimilies; they're you and what's in your head and what's in your hands and the motif. You may be working from the motif but everything is of equal importance and has to all work together. If you try to be a camera you get dead pictures (not knocking photography itself; there's a bloke behind

I'm hosting what should be a pretty fly open house event for the Brighton Fringe Festival this year. If you're in the Sussex area you're welcome to stop by any weekend in May and take a look around. Aside from me, there'll be selections of work from Annett Bank: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/cro-magnon/Transfixoiloncanvas80cmx80cmFebruar.jpg Lucy Porter: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/cro-magnon/LucyPorterpic.jpg and a few others I don't have images for just yet. Here's our Fringe listing: http://www.brightonfestivalfringe.org.uk/listings/listing.asp?ev=913&ed=6389