Ever had the feeling that all the twists and turns of life will never straighten; just for a wee while, long enough to be able to stop smell the roses and catch your breath?
Boy is it a test of stamina.
Twists and twirling turns are in abundance down this end. Being in four countries over a period of three days is slowly becoming the norm. Meaning a strange on/off relationship with the cyberwaves and yo-yo working in hours in the studio.
The astounding thing is that there are all sorts of great things still happening. A signed 5 year contract with the NRW landgetsuet, a 3 day solo show and new commissions.
“Fuerst Piccolo”
Pencil on Paper
Reserved
Sheona Hamilton-Grant. All rights reserved.There has to be a moral in there somewhere.
To be honest I will postpone trying to find it until the movers and their boxes have been and gone.
Look forward to saying hi again in August, mid August where I will be posting from our new home, from the hills of Bonn.
Until then wishing you all a great few weeks of creating and loads of summer fun.
©Copyright 2010 by Sheona Hamilton-Grant. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit her website.
Deadline reached and my new commission is now ready to be shipped.
Powered Together was commissioned by the NRW Landgestuet for their annual stallion show (Warendorfer Hengstparade) in September.
I’m really chuffed with the way this drawing has come out.
“Powered Together”
Pencil on Paper. 39x30cm
Sheona Hamilton-Grant. All rights reserved 2010Power, strength, speed, beauty, skill, trust and harmony are present in overdose.
Elements that my pencils adore rendering.
Meeting with my clients in a couple of days. Looking forward to hearing their thoughts.
On the drawing table another beautiful stallion. Will post a few updates soon.
©Copyright 2010 by Sheona Hamilton-Grant. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit her website.
The 200 year old house in the south of Belgium is about to be replaced by a 40 year old house in the hills of the former German capital.
We are moving our tri-lingual family and lazy cats to a new country, a new life.
Move, as you can well imagine, is the “in” word, used in all sorts of manners, tried out with different intonations and set in just as many contexts.
As a result, “in” now not only shapes our days, our actions but has also overflowed into my work.
Below the third step in a very spectacular “Pas de Deux”...
Powerful poetry in motion.
“Powered Together”
Work in Progress step 3
Pencil on Paper
Completion is scheduled for mid-july, in the heat of pre move fury, in a haze of action and a cloud of tumult ….
To be continued ….
©Copyright 2010 by Sheona Hamilton-Grant. See original post here.
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Done a wee bit more on the “modeling” front.
The big news is that I have an extra room I can use. It’s much the same as the first one, bright and spacious. (the model is a guesstimate as it has not been measured yet…)
Overview of rooms #1 & #2
All has been scaled to 1/20 including the panels and the mini reproductions.
(Printed out my work, laminated it and then cut out each individual image.)
Each drawing was assigned a panel and stuck on with sticky tape.
As all is still temporary, found it very useful to be able to move everything around.
Panels with laminated print outs
View into room #2
Aerial view of room#2
Entrance view into room#1
Arial view of room#1
The wee men help to get a better space perspective, as chance would have it they are pretty much to scale as well.
Feel a little relieved to have such a clear picture of things to come.
All that’s needed now is loads more hard work.
Off to sharpen some pencils… Ciao ciao.
©Copyright 2009 by Sheona Hamilton-Grant. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit her website.
Have you all started thinking of Christmas and tackling it’s yearly challenges?
Affirmative at this end.
Christmas commissions: the challenge facing Black on Grey on White.
Keeping the surprise intact implies keeping the image and drawing hidden and therefore depriving my blog of a substantial amount of material.
To counter this, I have started a large new piece (26x61cm = 10″x24″).
A “full frontal” view.
My targeted subject Hurrican.
In August I was granted a private photo session with this gem of an equine(big thank you to the Warendorf National Stud) .
150 frames to work from . Really can’t help thinking this is the first in many Hurrican portraits.
Work will be done in-between commissions.
Slow progress a certainty.
Updates a promise.
Until then, feel free to get know this big chap: he has his own website.
It’s in German but a horse is a horse…right?
©Copyright 2009 by Sheona Hamilton-Grant. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit her website.
“Fuerst Piccolo”
