On Sunday, I went to a Women’s Creative Salon in Swansea, with a group brought together by the artist Fern Smith. Fern is a recipient of a Creative Wales Award and has organised “Seven Sundays in Spring: All The Women I’ve Ever Met“, inviting women that she’s encountered throughout the course of her life to engage in these consecutive creative Sundays in Wales and England.
The sketches I did on Sunday were challenging because I wanted to be fully involved in the creative conversations and activities but also wanted to do credible drawings. I drew into an A4 hardbacked sketchbook that I’d prepared by sticking brown wrapping paper onto the pages with Pritt stick. I prefer to work on paper that has been tampered with in some way. A pristine white page is terrifying!
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well you tampered with the paper in a very effective way! totally supports the mood of these drawings! you really have some creative energy going here!
Thanks Aletha ☺ I don’t like drawing straight onto white paper
Nice work. Is that brown paper glued on white?
Thanks Hansi. It is, brown parcel paper stuck on at random with a Pritt Stick ☺
I do love the swatch of brown paper, it really adds dimension to the flat surface. Wonderful drawings.
Thank you, Sharon. I find that I am less inhibited when the paper isn’t a uniform white.
These are lovely sketches. So full of humanity.
Thank you, Neil. I hope to go to more of these Sundays, the process is definitely releasing some creativity in me.