Several people have asked me on the QT where my inspiration comes from. Everywhere anywhere, and in any situation where I find myself.
For example my daughter was having cancer treatment in London, I drew and painted in the various waiting rooms. It helped to make things bearable in a situation where I was helpless to heal my child.
She's fine now and has children of her own, but painting saw me through that.
If you and I go for coffee, I have a pen and sketch book in hand. If we went to the library. Same thing. You invite me to dinner I sit in the kitchen drawing you while you peel potatoes unless of course I am roped in to help.
My friends know this about me and they still love me. I'm a lucky woman that way.
Since I have so many sketch books hanging around I thought I'd show you a few of them. I have years of reference photos too.
These days my phone camera makes a trusty notebook too. I get permission from people and away we go.
I don't work directly from any of it. It just goes inside me, percolates giving me ideas, memories and general information to draw on. ( oops, sorry about the pun)
Even in portrait commissions where I must sometimes use a photo/photos are mixed with interpretation.
Do I prefer to work from life. Yes.
Why? Because the indescribable collaboration between model/subject, animate or not and the painter produces something special. Something truly unique.
Anyway here are a few of the sketch books that live at my place. And Skips' ear. He's so nosey
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