#Caturday Archives: 53

Here’s the late, great one-eyed Little Ming for this week’s #Caturday sketchbook archive, she was a very hairy tiny tortoiseshell cat that we rescued from neglect. Poor thing nearly died and spent several nights in the vet’s hospital and had to have an eye removed because her “owner” had neglected her so much. She was about 10 months old when we took on responsibility for her and she lived until she was 18 years! She always had a weakness in her lungs but she survived every winter with booster shots of antibiotics, anti-inflammatories and vitamins. She wriggled quite a lot when I was drawing her.

Life Drawing: The First Sketches

These are the first quick sketches from last night’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. I haven’t worked with this model before and it takes a while to get used to someone’s features, it takes a lot of concentration. These are 5-minute sketches and I used conté crayons in white, sanguine and black. I haven’t used conté for ages, it’s nice to get back into them again.

Prepping…

I prepped some recycled paper today. These are prints that have been discarded at Swansea Print Workshop, the paper is really good quality and it’s sold off cheap, so I re-use it for drawing. I put a thin layer of Daler Rowney System 3 acrylic paint onto it with a squeegee because I like to draw onto a coloured ground.

Making Art And Cordial

I carried on cutting my latest lino block today. Nothing staggeringly interesting, just keeping on keeping on, which is how most artwork is made. Meanwhile, Husb bottled the elderflower cordial he made with the flowers we foraged (responsibly) on Sunday. There’s plenty there for family too. I like to drizzle it over home-made sponge cake instead of a lemon drizzle.

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.