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peter hollard: New Work In Progress (The Difficult Pleasure)
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A visual artist, creating moody black and white tonal drawings in charcoal, pastel and graphite. Inspired by the human figure, story telling and Europe. New Work In Progress (The Difficult Pleasure). I've just commenced my next drawing. To be honoured. He had no choice in the matter. Whitely called Art "the difficult pleasure". One can speculate whether it ultimately cost him his life. This new work honours those times. The brown Kraft paper (205gsm) is 2 meters wide and 1200cm high,. I draw quickly so a...
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peter hollard: October 2011
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A visual artist, creating moody black and white tonal drawings in charcoal, pastel and graphite. Inspired by the human figure, story telling and Europe. From Chinon we drive back to Paris and return the car. The little Citroen C3 has been great and served us well. But what we really enjoyed was that roof! The roof rolled back to the 'B' pillar,. And the huge windscreen. Allowed the driver and front passenger to have a panoramic vision. Of everything around them. A lot of fun! A final stroll around Paris.
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peter hollard: SALT Magazine - Autumn 2012 - Artwork
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A visual artist, creating moody black and white tonal drawings in charcoal, pastel and graphite. Inspired by the human figure, story telling and Europe. SALT Magazine - Autumn 2012 - Artwork. Since the 05/06 Summer edition of the beautifully produced Sunshine Coast magazine,. I have been invited to illustrate Bernard Salt articles, and now, the stories of Brisbane writer Benjamin Law. Below is the final proposal for the current edition. Click on the link below to read "Law according to Benjamin". Alyson ...
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peter hollard: ARTISANIA at the Woodford Folk Festival 2013
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A visual artist, creating moody black and white tonal drawings in charcoal, pastel and graphite. Inspired by the human figure, story telling and Europe. ARTISANIA at the Woodford Folk Festival 2013. It's always been my mission as an Art teacher, to debunk the myth that being able to draw is left to a gifted few who are born with an almost divine trait. You can teach anyone a few simple tricks and ways of seeing to enable them to create something they thought was beyond their abilities. Where time slows d...
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peter hollard: January 2013
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A visual artist, creating moody black and white tonal drawings in charcoal, pastel and graphite. Inspired by the human figure, story telling and Europe. VESPERTINE VISIONS - Woodford Folk Festival. New Years Eve at Woodford, and I was invited to create one of my drawings in situ. In Artisania, a very public display. One of my large works can take up to 4/5 weeks to complete, so in order to do anything meaningful in a two hour evening performance, I got myself organised. After a couple of hours I had crud...
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peter hollard: November 2011
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A visual artist, creating moody black and white tonal drawings in charcoal, pastel and graphite. Inspired by the human figure, story telling and Europe. What To Do Now? I've just finished this inspirational trip and accumulated so much information. About places that I love and feel some strange familiarity and connection too. So what do I do now? What to do with all this stuff? How do I maintain momentum? As I travelled I not only maintained a blog about the journey,. And took nearly 2000 photos,. I've s...
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peter hollard: May 2011
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A visual artist, creating moody black and white tonal drawings in charcoal, pastel and graphite. Inspired by the human figure, story telling and Europe. Journal Pages from Europe - Vincent's Legacy. Journal entry from European trip. Even if you make your mark in this lifetime, what does it matter when we all return as dust? Legacies. Is life really about legacies? What we leave behind. These thoughts inspired "Mediocrity or Passion? Peter HOLLARD - Drawer, Painter, Illustrator. Links to this post. Rimmed...
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peter hollard: March 2011
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A visual artist, creating moody black and white tonal drawings in charcoal, pastel and graphite. Inspired by the human figure, story telling and Europe. The Parisian Story" (114.5 x 76.5cm) Charcoal, Pencil, Graphite on Paper. Single handedly she constituted an entire Parisian story.”. 8216; At Peace With Paris’. Peter HOLLARD - Drawer, Painter, Illustrator. Links to this post. L'adoration" (116cm x 200cm) Charcoal, Pastel, Graphite on Paper. A work this size takes me about 3 weeks to complete (9 days of...
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peter hollard: Wednesday Night Life Drawing...
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A visual artist, creating moody black and white tonal drawings in charcoal, pastel and graphite. Inspired by the human figure, story telling and Europe. Wednesday Night Life Drawing. With Karen, James, Andrew, Shane, Tom, Angela and a few others. We've been drawing for about 12 months now,. And love the challenges that life drawing brings. Recently I've been doing smaller works in my A4 journal,. Deliberately keeping them simple line drawings. With the view of taking them home and developing them further.
