Wednesday, 14 July 2010

Tour of the Chemists



The guy here in all probability DID NOT take anything, but the problem is that after so many doping scandals, I simply DO NOT believe anyone. That is sad - because he and others probably are great sportspeople. Hey where are the women???? Is it a Tour de Phallus?

Thursday, 8 July 2010


I have very quickly sketched in and clothed the Alice Neel's pregnant woman ( Alice Neel's "Pregnant Woman" (1971). Photograph: Estate of Alice Neel and from http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jul/07/alice-neel?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments
I think this illustrates nicely why Alice Neel's "sketchiness" wins hands down, because it shows in the choice of colours (the gangrene green!) that tenderness and vulnerability often requires a walk away from the palette of realism. But she did not go down the German expressionist route :

Thursday, 1 July 2010