Hot Air Cool Towers Cumbria UK - the first nuclear power plant in the UK. Calder Hall power plant was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 October 1956. It was an historical moment in the UK's technology history. It added a new supply of electricity to homes and businesses in the UK, moving the country away from coal and oil. Cooling towers work in different ways but these would use cold water to spray the heated gases/air and then allow the evaporated/cooled air to flow up through the chimney. Cooling towers with rising steam are an iconic image for me, they represent industrial England :^)
My latest collection of original artworks are from my Still Life with Technology exhibition at the Artspace gallery, Charleston Campus of the College of Southern Nevada. I have begun to experiment with color, mainly using Prismacolor pencils (wax and pigment) but also some acrylic paint.
Some of the industrial subjects I am drawing, and the domestic, have clear and recognisable outlines and shapes making them good candidates for a two color outline and blocking drawing method. In case you are interested Prismacolor started as Eagle Pencil Company in the US in 1938.
I am using the crptography letters generated to hold the title and the story of the piece which creates the texture, that is laywered on the cold-pressed watercolor paper which creates another texture underneath the letters and works really well with the color pencils. It creates are great fully textured result.
Contact for details or look at the Still Life with Technology Collection for more drawings. Drawings can be picked up locally.
