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| Buiten het atelier van de pottenbakker pastel on glasspaper |
Saturday was a busy day in the Cabine. Whilst Toot went for a thirteen mile training walk, well done Toot, I worked up a pastel sketch of our friends standing outside a pottery in an Amsterdam street.
The sketch is based on a photograph I took one snowy night about a month ago. I was particularly interested in the contrast between the soft night shadows and the harsh glare created by electric light.
I like the mystery created by the couple looking beyond the picture frame at a subject only hinted at by the title of the sketch. This ambiguity is in stark contrast with the simple one point perspective of the composition in which the street, intermittently lit and cloaked by the velvet black of night, disappears within just a few metres of the observer.
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