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The Boathouse — Rowing Art Print | Sculler in Sumi Ink and Pencil
$14.16
The Boathouse is an original rowing art print from the studio of Tremolo A Tiempo, drawn in Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils and Japanese sumi ink on paper. A lone sculler stands between two oars beneath the pitched beams of the boathouse, the timbers pulling the eye toward the water beyond. Flashes of red, white and blue run through the background, a quiet nod to British club rowing tradition.
$13.82
Manhattan, Imagined is the second plate in The George Files, an ongoing series of figure studies and character portraits by Alexander Paul Burton, working as Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece places its subject against a half-rendered New York skyline, the Chrysler Building rising behind him more as a thought than as a building. The handwritten subtitle reads "Projection Vs. Reality", the question the plate quietly asks of its subject and of anyone who has ever pictured a city before setting foot in it.
The figure stands turned away, a sash of teal and rose tied loose at the waist, the only true colour in an otherwise graphite world. He is looking at the skyline. Whether he is seeing it or remembering it is left to the viewer.
A considered piece for readers, collectors of literary art, figure drawing enthusiasts, New York lovers, and anyone drawn to work that carries a narrative inside the image. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
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High Line is the third plate in The George Files, an ongoing series of figure studies and character portraits by Alexander Paul Burton, working as Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece finds its subject folded into a corner, arms wrapped around his knees, one sock striped red and white, a pool of pink pastel spreading beneath him like a shadow that forgot to be grey.
Where the earlier plates placed George inside frames and against skylines, High Line strips the room away. There is no window view, no ornament, no city. Only the corner, the floor, and a figure the viewer arrives too late to comfort. It is the quiet middle beat of the series, the plate where the projection meets the reality.
A considered piece for readers, collectors of literary art, figure drawing enthusiasts, and anyone drawn to work that carries a narrative inside the image. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
$17.16
Regarding Work is the fourth plate in The George Files, an ongoing series of figure studies and character portraits by Alexander Paul Burton, working as Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece catches its subject mid-bend, shoulders forward, weight over the front foot, the muscles of the back and thigh doing the quiet arithmetic of a body at work. Behind him, a mirror or doorway holds a second view of the same room, as though the labour and the reflection of it are happening at the same time.
The handwritten subtitle reads "Labour Vs. Identity". It is the question the plate puts to its subject and, by extension, to anyone who has ever caught themselves in a doorway and wondered whether the work is the person or only the thing the person does to fill the day.
A considered piece for readers, collectors of literary art, figure drawing enthusiasts, and anyone drawn to work that carries a narrative inside the image. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
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An American Man is the fifth plate in The George Files, an ongoing series of figure studies and character portraits by Alexander Paul Burton, working as Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece strips the setting away entirely and lets its subject perform. George stands centred on the page, one arm raised in a flex, sunglasses on, grin unmistakable even beneath the shades, a single flash of cobalt at the waist the only colour in the composition.
The blank field behind him is the plate's quiet joke. There is no room, no city, no work, no window, only the pose. He has arrived somewhere, and the somewhere is a performance of himself. It is the plate in the series where the mask is on and the mask is the point.
A considered piece for readers, collectors of literary art, figure drawing enthusiasts, and anyone drawn to work that carries a narrative inside the image. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
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Company Kept is the sixth plate in The George Files, an ongoing series of figure studies and character portraits by Alexander Paul Burton, working as Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece places its subject at the edge of a window, one hand on the shutter, the other resting near the hip, looking down at a full-length mirror propped against the sill. Only the lower half of the reflection returns his gaze, briefs and thigh, the honest fraction of himself he came to check.
Where An American Man let George perform his pose to an imagined audience, Company Kept turns him back toward himself. The mirror is the company of the title. The window is open. The pane behind him holds the cool light of a morning that has already decided what kind of morning it is going to be.
A considered piece for readers, collectors of literary art, figure drawing enthusiasts, and anyone drawn to work that carries a narrative inside the image. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
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Amongst Others is the seventh plate in The George Files, an ongoing series of figure studies and character portraits by Alexander Paul Burton, working as Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece marks the first appearance in the series of another figure alongside George. Two men stand in a doorway, one turned toward the viewer with a half-smile and blue trunks, the other in profile with an arm braced against the frame, the staircase falling away between them and out into the light.
Where the earlier plates followed George alone (framed, projected, folded, working, posing, reflecting), Amongst Others opens the room. It does not tell us who the other figure is, whether he arrived, was already there, or is only passing through. The plate keeps that question to itself. What it does say is that the door is open and George is no longer the only person in the frame.
A considered piece for readers, collectors of literary art, figure drawing enthusiasts, and anyone drawn to work that carries a narrative inside the image. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
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Classicism 2.0 is a figure study art print from the Silverbourne collection by Alexander Paul Burton, published under the imprint Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece stages a classical hero in full contrapposto, a toga draped from one shoulder, a torch or sceptre raised in one hand and a phone held loosely in the other. He wears trainers. He wears a pair of boxer-briefs. He is standing on a stage of pink shadow, and he has all the poise of an antique statue with none of the marble.
The subtitle, "The Modern Man", is the piece's quiet punchline. Classicism 2.0 is what you get when the version number keeps ticking over but the pose does not. It is a figure study, a period joke, and a small, affectionate portrait of the way contemporary manhood still borrows its silhouette from a plinth two thousand years old.
A considered piece for readers, collectors of literary art, figure drawing enthusiasts, classicists with a sense of humour, and anyone drawn to work that carries a narrative inside the image. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
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Classical "Player" is a figure study art print from the Silverbourne collection by Alexander Paul Burton, published under the imprint Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece leans its subject against a stone plinth, one foot crossed over the other, boxer briefs low on the hips, a laurel crown resting slightly askew at the brow. In his right hand he holds a lyre. The quotation marks around the title do the rest of the work.
The plate is Silverbourne's small argument that the archetype has been around a very long time. The lyre-player of the classical world (Apollo tuning up, Orpheus about to make trouble) is the same figure who leans against the same wall two thousand years later with a slightly different instrument and the same expression. The crimson wash pooling around his feet reads as stage light, as spilled wine, as whatever else you want it to read as. The plate does not choose for you.
A considered piece for readers, collectors of literary art, figure drawing enthusiasts, classicists with a sense of humour, and anyone drawn to work that carries a narrative inside the image. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
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A Gay British Wedding is a figure study art print by Alexander Paul Burton, published under the imprint Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece places two grooms side by side on a small pew, both in dinner jackets and bow ties, hands folded in their laps, the pink of a boutonnière or a summer flush at the temple. One looks ahead to the ceremony. The other looks across at him.
The plate carries none of the pomp of a formal wedding portrait. There is no aisle, no altar, no photographer's flash. There are only the two of them on the bench, waiting for the next thing to happen. That is where the piece lives, in the quiet minute before the vows, when everything to be said is still ahead and everything to be sure of is already sitting right there beside you.
A considered piece for the couple themselves, for the friends and family looking for a wedding gift that carries feeling as well as occasion, for collectors of literary and LGBTQ+ figure drawing, and for anyone drawn to work that treats a private moment with the quiet dignity it deserves. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
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In Repose is a figure study art print from the Silverbourne collection by Alexander Paul Burton, published under the imprint Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece sits its subject on the floor, one leg drawn up and crossed, weight braced on the left arm, right hand resting easy on the raised knee. He wears blue tartan shorts, nothing else, and he is looking straight at whoever is drawing him.
Where the more comic plates in the Silverbourne collection borrow the tools of classical figure work and set them against modern accessories, In Repose is the collection's quieter register.
A considered piece for collectors of figure drawing and life study, for buyers who love the observational tradition of Freud, Hockney and Kitaj, and for anyone drawn to work that treats the human body as a subject rather than a message. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
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Catch and Drive is a rowing art print from the Rowing Series by Alexander Paul Burton, published under the imprint Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece catches a sweep rower on bow side at the working end of the stroke, blade buried, weight through the handle, shoulders opening for the drive. He wears a cap and sunglasses, dressed for a long outing rather than a race day. Behind him, the river banks away into a stand of trees and open ground, sketched in with the looseness of a scene glimpsed between strokes.
Where the collection's opening plate, The Boathouse, held its rower still inside the vanishing point of the beams, Catch and Drive is out on the water and mid-effort. The mark-making is deliberately less resolved, because the catch is not a tidy moment. It is a moment of applied force, water and blade meeting, and the drawing lets that energy stay in the line rather than smoothing it out.
A considered piece for rowers, coaches, coxes, clubhouses, boathouse bars, home offices and anyone drawn to the parts of the sport that happen out of sight of the finish line. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
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St Mary's is a rowing art print from the Rowing Series by Alexander Paul Burton, published under the imprint Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece looks at its sculler head-on from the water, blades at rest either side of the boat, the near spoon catching the light in the blue and white of the fictitious St Mary's club colours. The sculler holds the finish position, or the moment just after it, breath still coming back.
The head-on perspective is the piece's quiet difference. Most rowing art shows the boat in profile because that is the easier drawing, but the view from the water in front of the boat is the view the empty lane sees, the umpire launch sees, the finish-line judge sees. It is the view the rower himself never sees. The plate hands it back to him.
The St Mary's club and blade colours are drawn from the world of the Silverbourne novels, where the piece appears as a chapter heading. It is a rowing print for the sport, and it is a small object from a fictional world for readers of the books. Both readings work.
A considered piece for rowers, coaches, coxes, clubhouses, boathouse bars, home offices, readers of literary rowing fiction, and anyone drawn to the parts of the sport that happen out of sight of the finish line. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
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Launching Off the Pontoon is a rowing art print from the Rowing Series by Alexander Paul Burton, published under the imprint Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece looks straight down the bow of a pair as it pushes off from the landing stage, the stroke side rower filling the frame, hands on the handle, cap and sunglasses on for the outing. The V of the bow cuts up the centre of the composition, foreshortened along the boat's long axis, and the greenery and open water sit behind him where the pontoon has just been left.
The perspective is the piece's difference. Rowing art almost always shows the boat in profile because that is the easier drawing, but the head-on view down the axis of the shell is the view the crew's coach sees from the launch, the view the boatman sees as the pair leaves the raft, and the view the second rower in the boat will never quite have. The plate hands it over.
A considered piece for rowers, coaches, coxes, clubhouses, boathouse bars, home offices and anyone drawn to the parts of the sport that happen before the race and after the finish, when the boat is still being asked to hold its line. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
$10.08
The St Mary's Rowing Mug carries a piece of original rowing art by Alexander Paul Burton onto an 11oz white ceramic cup, ready for the morning after a hard outing or the quiet half hour before one. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the image looks at its sculler head-on from the water, blades at rest either side of the boat, the near spoon painted in the blue and white of the fictitious St Mary's club. The St Mary's colours are drawn from the world of the Silverbourne novels, where the piece appears as a chapter heading, which makes the mug a rowing gift and a small object from a fictional world at the same time.
The mug is white glazed ceramic, 11oz (roughly 325ml), the standard size that sits comfortably in the hand and holds a proper cup of coffee or tea. Dishwasher safe and microwave safe. The print is applied cleanly across the wrap so the sculler and blade sit centred whichever hand is holding the mug.
A considered gift for rowers, coaches, coxes, boat club committee members, clubhouse bars, boathouse offices, readers of literary rowing fiction, and anyone who has ever waited for the kettle in a boat shed at six in the morning. Printed on demand by Gelato, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
$15.30
The Influencer Culture iPhone Case carries a piece of original figure art by Alexander Paul Burton onto the back of your phone. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the image stages its subject in front of a mirror with a phone in one hand and the other arm raised behind the head, doing the geometry a phone camera has taught a generation to fall into. The piece is titled Influencer Culture, and it lives on the back of the very device it is quietly making a joke about.
The case is printed clean edge to edge in glossy or matte finish (depending on model), with a durable polycarbonate shell that protects the phone through the day and lets the artwork read clearly whichever pocket it comes out of. All cutouts are precise to the model. All buttons stay responsive. The image sits centred on the back so the joke lands the moment the phone comes into view.
A considered piece for readers, collectors of literary and figure art, anyone who has ever caught themselves posing for a camera they were holding themselves, and anyone drawn to work that carries a quiet argument on the back of an ordinary object. Printed on demand by Gelato, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
$14.30
The Influencer Culture Samsung Case carries a piece of original figure art by Alexander Paul Burton onto the back of your Galaxy. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the image stages its subject in front of a mirror with a phone in one hand and the other arm raised behind the head, doing the geometry a phone camera has taught a generation to fall into. The piece is titled Influencer Culture, and it lives on the back of the very device it is quietly making a joke about.
The case is printed clean edge to edge in a durable polycarbonate shell that protects the phone through the day and lets the artwork read clearly whichever pocket it comes out of. All cutouts are precise to the model. All buttons stay responsive. The image sits centred on the back so the joke lands the moment the phone comes into view.
A considered piece for readers, collectors of literary and figure art, anyone who has ever caught themselves posing for a camera they were holding themselves, and anyone drawn to work that carries a quiet argument on the back of an ordinary object. Printed on demand by Gelato, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
$8.84
The High Line Postcard Pack carries a piece of original figure art by Alexander Paul Burton onto a set of ten postcards, ready to be sent, kept, pinned to a board, or handed over as a small object of considered work. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the image finds its subject folded into a corner, arms wrapped around his knees, one sock striped red and white, a pool of pink pastel spreading beneath him like a shadow that forgot to be grey. The piece is from The George Files, an ongoing series of figure studies and character portraits, and this postcard reproduces the third plate in the series at a scale that fits comfortably in the hand.
The pack contains ten identical postcards printed on quality postcard stock, with a smooth writable back for a note, address and stamp. Each card is standard postcard size, ready for post anywhere in the United States and Canada, or perfectly usable as a small print, a bookmark, a framed miniature, or a note left on a kitchen counter.
A considered set for readers, collectors of literary art, figure drawing enthusiasts, correspondents who still write by hand, and anyone who wants a piece of quiet artwork to send out into the world ten times over. Printed on demand by Gelato, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.
$20.22
The Rowing Tote Bag carries two pieces of original rowing art from the Rowing Series by Alexander Paul Burton, one on each side of a classic long-handled cotton tote. The Boathouse sits on one face, a sculler standing between two oars in the vanishing point of the pitched boathouse beams, drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink. Launching Off the Pontoon sits on the other, a stroke side sweep rower foreshortened down the bow of a pair as the boat pushes off the raft, drawn in the same materials. The two pieces face opposite directions on the bag the way a rower's day does: the still boathouse behind, the open water ahead.
The tote itself is 100% cotton with reinforced stitching on the long handles for the weight of a full kit bag, a 10-litre capacity that swallows a training top, spare kit, water bottle, snacks and the small library of things a rower actually carries to the boathouse, and a substantial printable area front and back that lets the artwork sit properly rather than shrunken into a pocket. The bag is eco-conscious, made from natural cotton, and light enough at 100 to 170 g/m² to fold flat when you're not using it. Made on demand, no minimums.
A considered piece for rowers, coaches, coxes, boat club members, boathouse-bar regulars, and anyone who wants to carry a piece of the sport rather than a logo. Printed on demand by Gelato, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.