Making Art: The Reality

The reality of making art is…you have to make it. Takes ages. I’m carving a new lino block. I’ll be carving it for quite some time.

Scribbleheads…

I keep meaning to do more random sketches from imagination, just letting my bit of graphite scribble away to see what happens, but I find it so hard to let go and not work from life. I MUST TRY HARDER!!! 😀

#Caturday Archives: 52

I’ve been going through my old sketchbooks for #Caturdays for about a year now, here’s number 52 from July 2017, the late, great and very hairy Little Ming.

Still a heatwave…

Going back 10 years in my sketchbook archives to some very hot weather that brought out the immortal combo of shorts and socks.

Life Drawing: Just Back

Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop and I’m just doing a quick post before going to bed. I did the drawing using a graphite stick for the finer details and a graphite block (6B) for the strong lines and darker shading. Nos da, goodnight

It’s A Heatwave!

It’s so hot at the moment, we Brits don’t do extreme weather very well. It’s been over 30 Centigrade for the past few days. It’s quite a mild climate here in South Wales anyway, here’s one of the palm trees on the beach nearby.

Sketchbook Archives: 63

Looking through my sketchbooks from June 2015, I was going through a phase of pasting brown wrapping paper into my sketchbooks to give a bit more variety to my drawings. Here are some I did of musicians at one of the local folk clubs.

#Caturday Archives: 51

I’ve been going through my old sketchbooks for Caturdays for about a year now, here’s number 51 from February 2017. Just a couple of quick sketches in Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens into a tiny A7 size sketchbook.

Life Drawing: No MoJo

My mojo just wasn’t with me last night at life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop. We had a great model that I’ve drawn before and I had lovely paper and graphite, but I just couldn’t get into it. The drawing isn’t too bad, but the likeness isn’t quite there. Sometimes that’s just the way it is.

Life Drawing: Just Back

Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop and I’m just doing a quick post before going to bed. Nos da, goodnight