Category Archives: Art For Sale

The Teller

Another quick sketch from the Swansea Storytelling evening at Tapestri last night. I didn’t write down the name of the Teller but he was really good with a story about a jellyfish and a monkey.   I have been travelling across South Wales with Rhondda-born archaeologist Dewi Bowen and Swansea film maker Melvyn Williams, hunting theContinue reading “The Teller”

Fake, Flush And Fanning!

Today, Husb and I had a jaunt up to Cardiff, or The ‘Diff as it’s known around here, to the National Museum to take part in Sky Arts new television series “Fake! The Great Masterpiece Challenge.” I sent off an email to apply back at the beginning of the month and thought no more aboutContinue reading “Fake, Flush And Fanning!”

Coffee And Spit Bite

I’m going to be at Swansea Print Workshop tomorrow and I’ll be preparing some aluminium plates ready for some coffee bite etching, using some of my drawings of Neolithic stone monuments for inspiration. Here’s a blog I did a while back about this technique, which was invented by Andrew Baldwin of Aberystwyth University, an expertContinue reading “Coffee And Spit Bite”

Stiff And Awkward

Had lots of things to do today so I didn’t get round to doing a drawing until late. I chose a figure from a series of photos I took on the beach earlier in the week on Swansea Beach when it was sunny and sketched it with a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen. I’m notContinue reading “Stiff And Awkward”