Richard - Saturday Life

Sketches and painting from Saturday's life class.

Michael: Sussex Arts Collective

I'm exhibiting at the Sussex Arts Collective "Noel" show, at the Hop Gallery in Lewes.



Friday 26 November to Wednesday 22 December.

Monday to Saturday 10.30 - 5, Sundays 11 - 5. Lewes late night shopping event: Thursday 2 December 6 - 8 pm.

Hop Gallery, Star Brewery, Castle Ditch Lane (off Fisher Street), Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1YJ.

Michael: Roman holiday IV

View across Rome: Looking east from the Piazzale Giuseppe Garibaldi on the Janiculum Hill.


Ink and watercolour, 15 x 9 cm. Click the picture for a bigger version.

This is a fascinating view to draw. What strikes me is that there are no skyscrapers breaking up the view. The highest buildings are still the domes of the Baroque churches (of which there are many), and the large white building to the right: "Il Vittoriano" (National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II), which is 81m high.

However, everyone else likes this view as well. I could have stayed drawing for much longer, but I was getting too many spectators to feel comfortable.

Willow Foundation auction

Stars on Canvas 2010 auction: Hundreds of canvas each created by a different artist or celebrity - from Tracey Emin to Jude Law, not to mention several members of the London Road Group. All raising money for the Willow Foundation to provide special days for seriously ill 16 to 40 year olds throughout the UK.

The auction is live now on ebay, and continues until 6 December.

An exhibition of the canvases runs from 2 to 5 December at the Catto Gallery, Hampstead.

• Bid for Liz's painting

• Bid for Sheri's painting

• Bid for Michael's painting

Michael: New English Art Club

My "St Mary Axe/Leadenhall" linocut will be in the New English Art Club open exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. The exhibition runs from Friday 26 November - Sunday 5 December 2010.



More information
New English Art Club
Mall Galleries

Michael: Roman Holiday III

View from the English Cemetery, where Keats and Shelley are buried, of the Pyramid of Cestius. The pyramid is a mausoleum for a Roman magistrate, dating from 18BC; the city walls were built around it. It's 37m high (I couldn't fit it all on the paper), and still covered in white marble.



Ink and watercolour on paper, approx 28 x 9 cm. Click the picture for a bigger version.

Michael: Roman Holiday II

This is a good example of what I was saying about choosing somewhere comfortable to sit before choosing what to draw.

Behind me is the Pantheon: the Emperor Hadrian's temple, with the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome, even after two thousand years. To the left, is a curious Bernini fountain with an elephant carrying an obelisk on its back.


Ink and watercolour on paper, 9 x 14 cm. Click the picture for a bigger view.

But the wall I'm sitting on faces a lamppost and a MacDonald's sign, so that's what I draw.