Radish drawn with Brushes on my iPhone. I heard about this app from designer Tim Copsey of Empty. I checked to see what Hockney uses and it was the same one.

The view through a window cut in a fence on the edge of a building site near Fenchurch street. Digging foundations and moving earth is like revealing the innards of the city. This together with the fascinating activity of making a building.

Camels waiting to take visitors on a sand dune trek, to see a sun set over the Thar desert, and a wandering goat.

These are the workings from a five day course in anatomical life drawing with Stuart Elliot. The course was just the tip of the iceberg. The more we learned, the more it became clear how vast the subject of anatomy was. The more we looked at the skeleton, the more complex it showed itself to be. And this was without the addition of the muscles, of weight and movement!

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I went to two exhibtions at the Tate Modern, Arshile Gorky and Theo Van Doesburg and noticed one thing in common with their paintings. Rather than leaving the neutral colour of the paper or canvas visible, they painted it in. If they wanted white they painted white, in oil or gouache.

P1, *k1, p1; repeat from * to end

Richard of York gave battle in vain
Read out your green book in verse
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet

Claudia Carr guided us through these exercises to explore drawing from the model.

The turrets were added to the medieval castle by an architect Viollet-le-Duc. In a grand 19th century restoration project, he added pointed cones to the roof tops. These were unlikely to have belonged to the medieval castle, which probably used sloped tiled roove which is suitable for snowy regions. His interpretation of a medieval castle was inaccurate, but it turned the site from designated quarry into a tourist attraction.