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Inspiration in Three Parts - Blog 2
Diagnosis and Prognosis As a result of the many blood tests taken during the nose bleed, it was discovered that I’d got prostate cancer - I was also tested for Covid many, many times but as the hospital had run out of swabs to stem the blood flow, I improvised a mask filled with absorbent materials to stem the flow overnight The consultant – a late 30s Sri Lankan female - gave me the options but it included a biopsy – nothing to draw there as I was flat on my back with two


One of the Best to Date...
Possibly the best life-drawings I've ever done - Jodine, Bodybuilder - at Bexleyheath Figure and Portrait Group in very downtown Barnehurst. Venue he great Bird and Barrel micro-brewery...PS: The only one I am proud after a two-hour session...


Inspiration in Three Parts - Blog 1
Covid and the Intermittent Nose Bleed As was my wont, I was forever sketching so stuck in various A&E and other hospital departments, I’d take out my black-bound book (people think it’s a diary and don’t ask to read it) and scribble away. At this time, I had an intermittent nosebleed which lasted over three weeks and involved Paramedics and Ambulance Rides (for which as a taxpayer, I insisted on blue lights and sirens) as well as stays in hospital plus interminable hospital


Proud Beauty by Chris Francis
This figure is not simply observed—it emerges from uncertainty. Thus, the artist carefully measures up-and-down the figure, across and diagonally to create an immediate but studied drawing of a proud, curvaceous female Coloured pencil on tan ground 26cm × 16 cm


Get an Objective Outdoor Perspective
In a United Kingdom surrounded by sea and having six mighty rivers, controversially, Chris Francis condemns Cyber Addicts too locked into their screens to investigate the actual real world around them. For example, those living near ports, on coastlines or the banks of major waterways would be amazed at the palpable majesty of engineering and structure of quays, harbours and vessels subject to the effects of the elements, time and tide. Starting by logging-in to www.arecle


Still Life But Not As We Know it
Deliberate exercise to lift the familiar to the status of a usually higher genre but masterfully and boldly using acrylics rather than traditional oil paints, also simultaneously lampooning current nutritional fads. A true Still Life study of the forms, colours and textures of common or garden produce. Original Artwork in Acrylic Paints 30cm x 30cm Message or text me to arrange payment and delivery
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