I was late getting to life drawing last week so I didn’t get to do the 3 quick poses that start each session. Here are two at 15 minutes and one at 20 minutes. This is a model I’ve worked with many times over the years and it’s easy to slip into a visual shorthand so I tried altering my usual style a bit for the first and third drawings.
It’s #Caturday Saturday once again. This is from my old sketchbooks, back in December 2015. Just a couple of very quick scribbles at feeding time.
I’ve been concentrating on portraiture at life drawing sessions for the past few months, but I was really taken with this pose, especially the patterns on the throws and cushions that contrasted so much with the cool, pale skin of the model.
At last! Sunshine! Spring is here! Husb and I went foraging as it’s Ramsons (wild garlic) season. We know some old woodland where the Ramsons grows prolifically and we foraged responsibly. There were celandines and wood anemones peeping through the wild garlic leaves. We also saw lots of primroses and just the one bluebell – I reckon another 10 days or so and the woods will be strewn with bluebells. Going to visit again in a couple of weeks.
To find out more about responsible foraging in the UK, see here. And to check out what’s available to forage in March, see here.
I recently posted about the Miniprint Cymru exhibition in Mostyn (gallery) in Llandudno, North Wales (see here) and here are the three linocuts I have on show there. They’re each 10 x 10 cm (about 4 x 4 inches). The top one, “Should Bill Get Some Bacon” is printed using the chine collé technique to get that golden colour in the background. The two “Heavy Metal Legs” linocuts are printed with black ink onto white paper. Each one has been produced in a small edition of 10, all handprinted by me. No AI, no mechanisation, just me, my hands and a few traditional tools.
I have three linocut prints in the Miniprint Cymru Wales exhibition which has now travelled to Mostyn in Llandudno, North Wales. It opened yesterday (14th March) and continues until May 2nd. There are 270 original prints of all kinds – silkscreen, etching, drypoint, collagraph, linocut, woodblock, monotype, letterpress and cyanotype – the whole range of printmaking techniques by artists across Wales. The artworks have been produced in small limited editions and are available to buy framed or unframed. There I am looking at one of my little linocuts, called “Should Bill Get Some Bacon?”.
It’s #Caturday Saturday once again. Looking through my old sketchbooks, I did quite a few scribbles of Sparta Puss back in November 2015. I used to have a very comfy IKEA Poang chair, but it was Sparta’s favourite chair as well. Here she is, keeping me off it!
Here are some old sketchbook scribbles, from April 2015. It must have been good weather because I’m out and about a lot.
I’ve been posting a lot recently about my Pakistan trip in 2007, but when I came back I was inspired to go out and look at my Welsh heritage, visiting our ancient stone monuments over three years, in all weathers. Here are some of my photos from that time and if you want to see more, I have a digital exhibition on the link below.
This is a story in words and images of my journey to Pakistan and how it subsequently led me to work with pre-historian Dewi Bowen and filmmaker Melvyn Williams for three years travelling across the wild areas of South Wales.
Please click on the link below to see the exhibition, I hope you enjoy it. Thanks xxx
During my trip to Pakistan back in 2007, I realised the extent of creativity in that part of the world, creativity that had been flourishing for centuries if not millennia. Buildings and gardens were covered in beautiful paintings, mosaics, carvings, marquetry. I photographed a part of a mirrored mosaic on a ceiling, it looks like an abstract painting up close.
I have a digital exhibition just opened on the Swansea Print Workshop site. It’s a story in words and images of my journey to Pakistan back in 2007 and how it subsequently led me to work with a pre-historian and a filmmaker for three years travelling across the wild areas of South Wales.
Please click on the link below to see the exhibition, I hope you enjoy it. Thanks xxx
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