Drawing and Painting Pairs

Sometimes a drawing is a preparatory sketch for a painting and sometimes it's both preparation for a painting and an artistic statement in its own right. Here's a selection of paintings and the drawings that preceded them.

'The Young One' above is a pencil drawing that inspired 'Courage of Youth' below. This is a nice example of how identical subject matter can be treated very differently. The drawing has quite carefully considered lines and cross hatching whereas the painting is more gestural and impulsive.


The influence of the pencil sketch (above) of two sheep on a Devon cliff top can be clearly seen in the painting below 'Spring Sunshine'. The sheep on the left has a very distinctive look which I haven't seen before in paintings and this is, in part, why I decided to make this pair the subject of a painting.


'Back To Mum' above partly inspired 'It's Sunny Here' below. The influence can be seen in the adult sheep, I think the pencil drawn animal has a stronger sense of emotion than the painted version but I am constantly drawn to the colour combinations and sense of light in the painting.