Chris Beetles Gallery

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Field Maple W Wickham

Stanley Roy Badmin (1906-1989)

Price

£550

Signed

Signed and inscribed with title
Inscribed 'Some dry brush work to be discerned in this mainly "wash" drawing. fig 8' below mount
Pencil drawing of Scots Pines below mount

Medium

Ink and watercolour

Dimensions

4 ½ x 4 inches

Provenance

The Estate of S R Badmin

Illustrated

Amateur Artist, Vol 2 No 2, June 1967, cover, 'Drawing Trees. Part One: Winter Skeletons' by S R Badmin

Exhibited

'S R Badmin RWS, Paintings, Drawings & Prints',
Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March-April 2015, no 126;
'S R Badmin & the English Landscape', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, April-May 2026

A brush with most of the ink worked out—"dry brush" —is effective in rendering the general growth direction of "twiggery", but avoid a too mechanical look. See cover Field Maples. Less hygienic but more convenient and effective is the "spit-and-ink" method, or, more politely, ink and smudge, in which the pen line is softened or a tone developed by the use of a little saliva on the finger tip. This is particularly effective with non-waterproof Indian ink; use the side of your drawing for trial effects, where also a blob of ink can be left to act as a kind of palette.
Amateur Artist, June 1967, page 22

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