Villa Rufolo, Lucey Bowen, 2012

Mid-Morning Break

A quick break from drawing from photographs.  These roses were on their last legs , so I clipped them and brought them inside for posterity!

Asian Food

Singapore's fabulous food, from a photo by Ian Lloyd in Gourmet, 1993

Sir David Chang's China Club in Hong Kong, from a photograph by Ian Lloyd in Gourmet, 1992.

Drawing Singaporean food makes me hungry, but this was a quick study.   The China Club, with its dark interior and plethora of chairs was tricky, but fun as I remembered our meal there.

More Blue and White, in the Artist's Garden

Calico for Molly, May, 2012, Lucey Bowen with ArtRage

Reflections

Drawn from my photograph, to illustrate Gourmet, 1991, article on Jaipur, reviewed in my kitchen tis of thee blog.

     I've not posted paintings in a couple of weeks.  I've been working on my series of doors from India.  My plan is to print them as miniatures, matted with a border made up of the photograph from which they were drawn.  They will be decorated with jewels and metal, and will be for sale!  Etsy, here I come.

Does in a museum count as drawn from life?

At the new Islamic Galleries in NYC Metropolitan Museum

So I've been working on a series of doorways from South India and North India, and in New York drew this fabulous wooden archway. When I was finished, discovered that the other side is even more beautiful!

Quick Illustration

I am not neglecting to ArtRage everyday, I'm just not posting them!
This was a quickly drawn illustration for my blog.  An interesting problem is that I can't seem to get a good line going with my handwriting.  I'm going to think about some techniques that might produce interesting letters. For example, a plastic template over the screen could serve, and produce some neat penciled in letters.