Sketch Club 18 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE: 1985 ‘Embryo’ watercolour - Dougie Chowns. Birthing New Zealand as an adult embryo to the world. Stanley Kubric enjoyed this…
Sketch Club 17 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE: Detail: ‘Arnolfini Portrait’ (below) - Jan van Eyck - 1434. Is this mirror a clue? SINGLE POINT PERSPECTIVE AND WHY…
Sketch Book 16 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE: ‘Child of Llyr’ - Dougie Chowns. Currently in the Timor-Lesté Presidential Suite - Life-size figure. As the boy metamorphosis into…
Sketch Book 15 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE: Henry Moore’s ‘Draped Reclining Figure 1978. Reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation. ART IS MANY THINGS TO MANY…
Sketch Book 14 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE: Marine Reflections - by Dougie Chowns A CELTIC PHILOSOPHY Once the first flush of making artwork passes, like other creative…
Sketch Club 13 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE:Dougie’s sketchbook - Isle sur la Sorgue, Avignon 1989. Left: Life-size bronze by Cor Zitman. Right: Diana Vierny - from a…
Sketch Club 12 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE: LEFT: Sir Stanley Spencer. RIGHT: Dougie Chowns. Do you notice in the photo, the signs of a dedicated artist? I…
Sketch Club 11 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE: Lucien Freud appears to have denied an early portrait from his art school teens. A DELIGHTFUL SIDE TO DRAWING AND…
Sketch Club 10 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE: ‘For Christ’s Sake’ - charcoal. By Harvey Cox, January 1970. Thousands of clergymen have asked for reprints. AN ARTIST’S PASSION…
Sketch Club 9 – Dougie Chowns
ABOVE: Gottfried Bohumir Lindauer self portrait. Painted in oil in 1916 DOUGIE’S 80th BIRTHDAY RAVE! The Lindauer Art Heist after a…