Philip Winestone

It was just the other day that I discovered I have coincidentally been drawing in a manner similar to that of Georges Seurat. The writer of the article says: "Seurat's technique of black conté crayon uses the weave of the paper to break up the solid black and produce a sparkle of light in shadow areas."
It so happens that this very drawing technique (again using Conté pastel) appealed to me intuitively as I began, many years ago, to create many of my drawings using cold-pressed (rough) watercolour paper. In addition, my use of pen-and-ink - a totally different technique using a different type of paper - allows the white of the paper to peep through the cross-hatching, offering a similar "sparkle of light".

The author of the article went on to say: "[Seurat's] structures... represent his reaction to the informality of the Impressionist composition and pose (while he looks over his shoulder to Cezanne, who had also wished to restore order and structure to Impressionism)."

This struck a chord. To be honest I find much of what I see exhibited these days as being "somewhat sensationalist," perhaps even merely "decorative" but which often lack the "order and structure" indicated above.

Not so with my instructors and colleagues at th...

BSc Chemical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
Classical Drawing (4 years) - Art Studio in Toronto, Canada
Everything else I do can be classified as "autodidactic".

A few...