‘Man at bar III’ Pastel on paper 31cm x 46cm 49
Flo-master pen 50
Recently I asked a friend, who is involved in Look at the drawings – the swirling lines, teaching art students, to show me some of the dark punching energy. You can’t ever their drawings. “Oh no most of them don’t reproduce what you actually see in front of draw they just use their iPads”. The result is you but you can convey the amazing detail that very few can draw or can appreciate of an old tree, a scruffy fence post, the drawings. They should look at Norman odd look of a gnarled face with a hat and Cornish’s work. he could draw superbly well. smoking a pipe; with scribbling punching In his day there were no iPads, he just drew lines your imagination does the rest. wonderfully well. He always had a sketch book in his pocket; at work, to and from Andrew Festing, MBE, President of the work, in the pub, on the street; Norman Royal Society of Portrait Painters worked away using a Flo-Master pen which (2002 – 2008) suited him perfectly. Quite often Norman’s black & white drawing is more lively than the coloured version that may have followed; seemingly more spontaneous. The drawings of figures climbing the gantry have a look of a Piranesi print. The sketches of heads, bent figures on bicycles, sitting on benches and standing in queues are Rembrandt like. His family – wife and children – remind me of J.F. Millais and Van Gogh. The occasional landscape is brilliant. He had an enormous natural talent which you can’t teach. You either have it or not. If you have it then you must draw and draw, practice and practice. Always have a sketch book in your pocket. 51
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‘Man sat at table smoking and drinking’ Flo-master pen on paper 27cm x 35cm 53
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‘Three drinkers at table’ Flo-master pen on paper 21.5 x 27.5cm 55
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‘Man in cap playing dominoes’ Flo-master pen on paper 20 x 25.5cm 57
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‘Men in the pub’ Watercolour and pen on paper 19.5 x 25cm 59
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‘Man at bar’ Watercolour and pen on paper 25.5cm x 20cm 61
‘Study of Bob Henderson’ Flo-Master on newspaper 24cm x 32.5cm 62
‘Man smoking pipe’ Flo-master pen on paper 20cm x 12.5cm 63
‘Man at bar II’ Flo-master pen on paper 28.5cm x 22cm 64
‘A Cumberland memory’ Watercolour and pen on paper 20cm x 25 cm 65
‘Smoking man at bar with dog’ 66
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