Another hospital visit last evening with the teenage great-niece in tow who spent a while looking out of the window at the huge flock of starlings weaving across the sky as dusk fell. The hospital is in a lovely location giving patients a fabulous view over Swansea Bay and Mumbles Head; better than most of the hotels around here. Her shoes had bright pink butterflies embedded into the soles and she made butterfly cakes to take to her great-grandfather which cheered him up. Here they are. They were lovely, really light and scented with vanilla.
Scribbled into an A5 spiral bound Crimson & Blake watercolour pad with a Pilot V5 pen, size 0.5
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Congrats on your 400th blog Rosie!
And so glad to hear Melv’s dad is on the mend.
Love the sketch – and the words, reminded me of Thomas’ ‘Wingbeats’, naturally! xxx
ooh yes, of course, I’d forgotten that
Congrats on your 400th post!
And very glad to hear M’s dad is on the mend.
Love the sketch, and the words… reminds me of Thomas’ ‘Wingbeats’, naturally! xxx
Of course! I’d forgotten about that 🙂
It’s great to hear your father-in-law is recovering. You all have spent way too much time at the hospital. Glad there is such an incredible view to enjoy. Hang in there!
Congrats on the 400th! 🙂
Thank you 🙂 Fingers crossed he’ll be home Friday! I’ll have to find something else to draw every day lol
Two things made this sketch stand out to me. One was the murmuration glimpsed through the window. The other was that the child’s shoes extend past the spiral onto the adjacent page. It makes me think more analytically about drawing, about edges and boundaries, what they mean and how we can use them. I think that your breaching that boundary of the page leads my eye back in and allows me to go past the boundary of the window and into Swansea bay beyond.
I would like to see the Mumbles again and the blow hole at high tide.
Thank you for reminding me about ‘murmuration’. I had forgotten what that flocking thing they do was called 🙂 I often take my drawings into the next page, not always using the entire two page spread. It helps me to consider non- traditional proportions for my larger work as well.
Congrats on your 400th post. Wow. Sorry it was from a hospital room, but it looks very cheering.
Thanks 🙂 Dad-in-law seems to be getting better so hopefully we won’t be at the hospital for much longer.
My 400th post! Thank you for reading my blogs 🙂