Font

This beautiful baptismal font is in the parish church in St. Just-in-Penwith.  I want to do some artwork around it but I haven't done anything yet.

Is this the apple from the garden of Eden?

I'm not sure what this is.

What type of leaf is this supposed to be? I wonder what story it is. 

Noah's ark.

More grapes. 

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.  

John 15:1-5

 

Brisons Veor - Pew End with Shells and Swallows

“The pew end is an example of the type of pew end that used to be found throughout the Church. It was discovered in a farm stable pigsty, covered in many layers of paint and muck and the bottom two or three inches were set in concrete.” 

I’ve been playing with swallow and shell designs. I got interested after I saw this bench end at the church in St. Just 

I also saw this sign in town 

"As for the birds of the coast-the sea-birds-the Cornish coast is the coast par excellence for the study of their lives." 

p.43, Unknown Cornwall

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Value Study - Pencil or Vellum

Gouache Study Head of Bran Swallow

I started playing with these designs

Then I started printing 

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More swallow sketches

I’m cracking back to the shells - this one was in the house/ Brisons Veor