What do you call a fly without wings? Answer: a ‘walk’. I know it’s an old one, I hear you groan. Don’t misunderstand me, I love my fellow creatures, but I confess to a loathing for flies and where flies are concerned, the only blowfly I can tolerate is a dead blowfly. As if to…
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The Birds and the Bees, and other Animals
The Flight of the Bumble Bee
Transforming the “accidental into the enduring” is a quote taken from part of a wonderful small article written by Margaret Drabble about Prunella Clough, (Spring, 2010 – Issue 18 – edition of Tate etc. magazine) and is such a succinct way of describing what most of us do as artists. In it she talks about…
Read MoreBlurring the Boundaries
It is often said that you can’t break the rules unless you know what those rules are in the first place. There is no substitute for a good grounding in ‘academic’ drawing, and no discipline is better than the life-drawing room, with portraiture an even more exacting practice. But the life room can be a…
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Caro Woods MA 