After a week at the cottage (where blogging is verboten) we are back in business with this weeks offering, Macbeth and the witches. It is a theme we’ve covered here before, but as we just returned from seeing the play at the Stratford Festival Theatre, I feel it’s time to revisit. We have dug into … More Macbeth and the Witches
We’re in the full heat of summer now, so let’s get naked in the garden with the Bible’s first couple! In this Planet People poster, Eve holds out the forbidden fruit for Adam to sample. This gives them knowledge of good and evil, but causes them to be banished from paradise. In this second version … More Adam and Eve Revisited
With drawing you are not so much making a picture of something as a camera does, but rather you are describing a three dimensional object as it exists in space. The problem lies in having only the two dimensions of the paper to work with. The solution is to make marks that to the eye exist in space, … More Drawing
This week we will raise a glass to the toast of your choosing as we present images of drinkers. Here we are in a tavern at closing time. How did that old song go? From the tavern to the classical world, and we’re switching to wine. Merlot anyone? Wine after beer, does that … More Drinkers
When I first walked into the art school I attended I admit it was shocking to see a naked person sitting on an elevated surface for all to observe but one soon learns that knowledge of the human figure is essential for painting or sculpture. I had forgotten that initial reticence I myself had in … More The Nude
St. George, slayer of dragons and freer of damsels, somehow mixed up in my mind with Perseus and Andromeda. In this Planet People poster a bucking bronco helps dispatch the dragon. I do think I nailed it with this charcoal drawing . It’s full of bold expressive marks and dramatic action, and the … More St. George and the Dragon
The sphinx is a hybrid creature from ancient times. To answer her riddle incorrectly meant certain death. Here is a poster featuring our theme. I have handicapped the brave approaching mortal to emphasize the danger. In the second image, you can see the vestiges of an autumnal landscape that I have painted over … More The Sphinx
As an artistic being, I’ve got to admire a guy who can smite a Philistine and get away with it, and our David here is certainly one of the originals. The giant Goliath is felled by young David’s well-aimed slingshot. A vulnerable but confident David readies for the kill. A defeated Goliath stumbles … More David and Goliath
The sun and moon; natural light source of our days and nights. I have given them faces. Willow stick charcoal has the inky blackness of deep space. I often picture the planets as heads tumbling through space, connected perhaps by gravity but separate. Here the moon is a jagged Easter Island head, with … More Sun and Moon
Charm and seduction vs.war and destruction; opposites inspire art. In black and white, naked Venus easily disarms uptight Mars. In colour Mars reins in his chariot on a cliff as a radiant Venus washes ashore. I see conflict ahead! May you overcome! Barry.
Barry Trower 