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Painting of the month...

February 2010 ~ 'A Few People - Sketches...'

Graham Lock - Painting of the Month

...some done with pencil in a sketch book, others with a ball point pen on some cheap lined paper. These are useful reference material; any could be added to a painting to give some human interest.
Tip of the month...

Check each month for Graham's tips

February 2010

Sketching...
Every artist’s ideal must be to sketch whatever, wherever, whenever and to fill a book with beautiful drawings. I suspect it happens for very few. Nevertheless, the ability to draw well is essential, I believe, if an artist is to produce good paintings. This does not mean that you have to draw your subjects so that they look like what everybody else (or anybody else, for that matter) thinks they look like. What it is important is that they look like what you want them to look like – and that can be as realistic or abstract as you want them to be.

Fortunately, like most things, the more we practice, the more competent we become. Drawing can be fun – and it can be very frustrating, but getting into the habit of doing some drawing every day can only help it improve. So, try to carry a sketch book at all times – and then to find a few minutes every day to fill a page or two.

January 2010

New Year’s Resolutions...
Many people make ‘New Year’s Resolutions’. Why not look at a quantity of the art work you have completed through 2009. Hopefully you will see it with ‘fresh’ eyes. Try to look at it positively, but critically, and this may give you your resolution for 2010 – perhaps to develop some aspect of your drawing or painting, to experiment with a different medium, to attempt new subjects……….to stretch yourself in some way.

Whatever you do, have a Happy and Successful 2010.
About Graham Lock...

Graham Lock is an award-winning artist who lives in Chatham, in the county of Kent in the South East of England. Painting in a variety of media and styles, he has exhibited and sold his works widely. He receives regular commissions from clients and has paintings in many private collections around the world... in the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

As well as being a member of a number of art groups in Kent, Graham has been elected to membership of the United Society of Artists and the prestigious London Sketch Club.

In London Graham’s paintings have been exhibited at the London Sketch Club, the Westminster Gallery, the Cotton Centre, the Coningsby Gallery and at The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. He has had work chosen to be exhibited with two Royal Societies at the Mall Galleries, namely the internationally renowned ‘Royal Society of Marine Artists’ and the ‘Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers.’ In Kent he is represented by the Francis Iles Gallery in Rochester.

Many of Graham’s paintings are available as prints and greetings cards.



Graham Lock - Watercolour Paintings
No. 46


Graham Lock - photo
Graham I Lock

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