Prints, Paperclips in Pants and Paul Peter Piech

  The past couple of days I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather, like I’m fighting off a bug but today was my volunteer day at Swansea Print Workshop so I dosed up on paracetamol and spent the afternoon printing monotypes. I managed to do eight, basing them on drawings from my sketchbooks, soContinue reading “Prints, Paperclips in Pants and Paul Peter Piech”

A hunky male model and electrocuting fleas.

  I fancied doing some life drawing but it wasn’t life drawing group night so I borrowed Melvyn’s childhood Action Man, set up a floodlight and posed the little chap on a stool while I did this ink drawing of him. Best model I ever had – didn’t move a muscle. He’s got really bigContinue reading “A hunky male model and electrocuting fleas.”

Waspies, Steampunk and Drawing in the Dark

  Swansea Steampunk night happens at a very atmospheric Victorian club which has developed a patina of faded grandeur over the past 150 years or so. Once a month it’s taken over by strange people in spectacular costumes and weird accessories. It’s great to draw there because I normally work with professional nude models andContinue reading “Waspies, Steampunk and Drawing in the Dark”