172 - BLYTH RAILWAY STATION - DAVE EDWARDS - INK - 1990

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172 - BLYTH RAILWAY STATION - DAVE EDWARDS - INK - 1990

I did this drawing in 1990. More recently I did a coloured version, using my own choice of colours of course :)

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172 - BLYTH RAILWAY STATION - DAVE EDWARDS - INK - 1990 by BLYTHART

catherine walker

dave..it’s amazing ..you are such a great drawer.. is drawer a word…??
you are more like an architect really it’s so well drawn..and this is really amazing .. so well done..
BLYTHART replied

I’m a drawer … architects get paid money :)
bites

Amazing detail u would do wonderful etchings!
BLYTHART replied

ah, but I am a married man, so I’d have no-one to invite up to see my etchings :) Or do you not have that expression in Oz.
ronibgood

Beautiful work and detail.
bites

lol, no never heard that one : )
Shanina Conway

Lovely work Dave, wonderful detail;)
Lance Leopold

Great stuff,Dave,i wish i had your patience and sense of order,but then i wouldn’t be me i guess!!
BLYTHART replied

My patience and sense of order usually only activates during my art sessions. Otherwise I am an anxious person occasionally prone to panic attacks. Art relaxes me … it is my Yoga :) You know … “This guy has flipped his lid again … quick somebody … give him a paintbrush.” :)
helene ruiz

wow! what detail! what a great architectural illustration! just fabulous!!
BLYTHART replied

If I am allowed to critique my own artwork (seeing it 19 years later) I’d say the figures in the foreground save this from being a sterile piece of representational art.
Catherine Howell

Dave, you are such an exceptionally gifted artist! Wonderful work!!
Alexandra Felgate

LMAO @ the etchings comment Dave! But its true, you would do amazing things with Etchings I think!! You do certainly have an eye for detail! I love that aspect of your work, some is so detailed and representational, and others are so fantastical and imaginitive, its a refreshing combination!
BLYTHART replied

Lots of people have suggested etching, but with limited space and two curious cats wandering around I don’t think a bath of acid would be a good idea.
Linda Callaghan

great Dave..so much detail and interest – you are the master drawer …very talented indeed
BLYTHART replied

If I ever need a publicity agent, the job is yours my friend :)
andrea verstegen

You’re brilliant. I love the people standing there on the corner…gives warmth to the scene.
BLYTHART replied

If I were brilliant we wouldn’t need light bulbs, but I appreciate what you are saying, even though I disagree. I try hard, but I lack many of the finer skills displayed by artists such as yourself here on Redbubble.
AnitaInverarity

Amazing line work and detail Dave- completely wonderful x
Tom Gomez

Wonderful detail, super drawing …
Linda Ridpath

great work again Dave,do you use a ruler???
BLYTHART replied

I don’t nowadays, but in those days I used one for some of the lines, pencilling it in and then drawing freehand with ink over it, to make it look less mechanical … a trick a draughtsman friend taught me. I still believe that if one is drawing something that is man-made and needs to have a straight line, then there is no harm in using a ruler, but for the type of art I do now a ruler would be useless :)
Linda Ridpath

i love the black and white drawings, but i think i prefer your colourful bendy ones!!!! thanks Dave.
BLYTHART replied

Thanks. Unfortunately, I recently have had two exhibitions in my home town and as I am known for selling prints of my pen and inks a lot of (mainly older) people have said they don’t like my new colour pictures and prefer the older black and white ones … here on Redbubble it is usually the opposite.
Lenka

Great drawing! In fact, I love both versions, this BW is simply elegant but looks more (how to say it?) documentary (sorry, no better word found now, I simply mean it looking realistic), whereas the new colourful version (despite in colours that are provoking for me) has fantastic wavy shapes, is much more dreamy or crazy in positive meaning :) (you know, Dali, Gaudi and so on :)) Not sure which one I would choose if I had to! :)
BLYTHART replied

Thanks for that comment. When I did the pen and ink one it was part of a series of 27 drawings which I produced to have printed and sold in my home town. They went well, considering it is a small town and I sold a total of 6,500. Problem was, local people wanted them to be as precise as possible to coincide with their memories. An old lady even commented on one drawing saying I had missed out a little hole in a wall that she peeped through sixty years ago as a child. I hadn’t then printed the picture, so I was able to create a hole in the wall to please her. Maybe now you understand why I feel the need to be freer in my interpretation of scenes … a sort of knee-jerk reaction I suppose. By the way, when you say you find the colours provoking, is that in a good way or a bad way? Sometimes I think the colours I use may be too glaring at times … I’m honestly not sure.
TFFDavid

I agree with everyone else, this is fantastic work and you are indeed a great drawer.
BLYTHART replied

Cool! Thanks.
Brian Towers

So much detail and so different to your current work Dave, but that’s the great thing about your talents, variety and contrast.
BLYTHART replied

With me you never know what I’ll do next :) a.k.a. an unpredictable little git :)
Mark Gardner

Fantastic, really captures the essence of the place, great work
Lenka

An old lady even commented on one drawing saying I had missed out a little hole in a wall that she peeped through sixty years ago as a child. I hadn’t then printed the picture, so I was able to create a hole in the wall to please her. Maybe now you understand why I feel the need to be freer in my interpretation of scenes … a sort of knee-jerk reaction I suppose.

Yes, I understand (that’s probably similar to why I had a moment of creation of my dark flowers’ series; or a begin of it?) ;) But on the other hand, I also understand that lady and her memories, and it is so great that you could make the picture so that it looked like she supposed it to look…

>_ By the way, when you say you find the colours provoking, is that in a good way or a bad way? Sometimes I think the colours I use may be too glaring at times…_

I like the vibrant colours you use, definitely :) Glaring? I would take it as a sort of your signature :) As for those provoking colours, hm, not easy to explain, I think it’s neither in a good way nor a bad way, sort of I wouldn’t come to the idea to paint it in blue (forming such a big part of the picture…), especially in combination with those brown-greenish tones, but in fact, the longer I watch it, the more I like it :)
Brian Towers

I wouldn’t say you were little Dave.
BLYTHART replied

I know where you live! :p
DApixara

the texture here is outstanding, really wonderful work!
John Edwards

Outstanding detailed work Dave
Paul (Quixote)...

Congrats, Bly. Its a great drawing. Takes me back to the old drawing masters who used only pen and ink, and rarely graphite pencil
BLYTHART replied

Thanks Paul. I’m not brave enough only to use pen and ink though :) I pencilled it in first.
Paul (Quixote)...

lol. Same here. The permanancy of ink can be intimadating
Marita McVeigh

wow. beautiful!!!!
Lynda Robinson

Fabulous, beautiful work Dave. You blokes make me laugh! I do love the sense of humour displayed by you and Brian. I have heard of the ‘come up and see my etchings’ expression!!!! This is a very professional looking drawing and very much in the style of the ‘etchings’ I have in a very old set of Charles Dickens books.
BLYTHART replied

Brian and I both live in Blyth … it is in a parallel universe to the rest of the UK :)
Hidemi Tada

i always respect artist who can do such a detailed work. you are great Dave.
Orla Cahill

Wow! Such a brilliant drawing. So technically excellent. Superb detail. :)
Colin Cartwright

Excellent drawing here, Dave. The tones and contrasts are first-rate.
I love these old stations. There is a tiny one here in Felling – the oldest passenger railway station in the world. A real forgotten treasure, next to the ugliest metro station on the line. Now just graffitied by yobs.
GEORGE SANDERSON

Excelent drawing Dave, you put my efforts to shame !!!
BLYTHART replied

No I don’t George, but thanks. I like your work.
Crofty74

Hi Dave,

I’m from Blyth too, my mams mother had a picture of the railway station years ago, sadly when she passed away the picture was claimed (somewhat cheekily) by a relative. Is there any way to get a print of your frankly fantastic work?
BLYTHART replied

After reading your lovely compliment on this picture I have re-scanned it in higher definition, so it is now available for sale as a viewcard from Redbubble.
Crofty74

Thanks Dave, Much appreciated. I thought It would make a nice present for my mam. Much appreciated and keep up the good work. Cheers.
atong

I really admire your ink drawings. Such great skill, and a beautiful scene.
BLYTHART replied

I drew this BEFORE you were born. In 1964 (when I was fourteen) I used to wait at this station to meet my father when he came home from work in the nearby city of Newcastle Upon Tyne.