Tchaikovsky

 

Pencil, pastel and oil pastel

Biblical scene

 

Pencil and charcoal

Kathe Kolkowitz

 


Charcoal drawing
A copy of Kathe Kolkowitz's self-portrait. Kathe Kollwitz's imagery is marked by poverty stricken, sickly women who are barely able to care for or nourish their children.

Bridges

 



As with barns, I have drawn many dozens of bridges in pencil over the years. They, butterflies and trees are my favourite subjects. They have been the subject of many 'doodles' during meetings at work. I wonder what an art therapist would make of that.

Of these survivors at least one, the top one, and possibly the second, were drawn during Council committee meetings. Unusual though it may sound they did actually help me to pay attention to the proceedings. I doubt I ever went to a single meeting without doodling at least one butterfly somewhere on my papers.

John Denver

John Denver
Pencil, charcoal and pastel
January 1996

Coprinus fungi

Pencil sketch

Poppy

After Marjorie Blamey, the queen of flower artists.
Pen and crayon - 3rd September 1985