My family are used to me by now. When they visit they’re fair game. They get scribbled! Here’s my young nephew strumming his guitar. I want to get better at drawing musicians so I’m taking every opportunity to sketch them in action. I used a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen into my A5 leather-bound sketchbook.
Category Archives: At Home
That Time Of Year….
It’s that time of year again, the old year is fading out and in Wales the Mari Lwyd is starting to stir. For a few years now I’ve been making some New Year cards from linocuts I’ve done of the Mari Lwyd and here’s my new one, sketched onto lino and ready to cut. InContinue reading “That Time Of Year….”
#Caturday Archives 13
Most of the images I post for #Caturday are drawings or prints of one of my cats, but this week here’s Sparta Puss “helping” me when I was painting a poster. She often tries to “help”.
Playing Around 1
I had a bit of a play today, with Derwent Inktense blocks onto Khadi handmade paper. Just playing around, not trying to do anything recognisable, seeing what the materials can do. I might try and do this every day ….
#Caturday Archives: 12
It’s Saturday / Caturday again and here’s another from my cat drawing archives, our youngest, Sparta Puss, aka Sparty Pants, Spartsy and Tyrant. She’s drawn with conte crayons in black, white and sanguine into a brown paper sketchbook.
Noodling …..
My teenage nephew is staying over, he’s a music student and I wanted to do some sketching with him. I’ve been doing a lot of scribbling at gigs recently but there’s not enough time to really focus on details like hands and the position and the foreshortening of the instruments. As he “noodled” with hisContinue reading “Noodling …..”
#Caturday Archives 11.
It’s Saturday #Caturday again and here are some kitty drawings from my sketchbook archives. Sparta Puss was dozing on top of the boiler in the kitchen in front of the window. It’s Spring and the amelanchier tree in the background is blooming and the washing is being dried with solar power.
#Caturday Archives 10
It’s Saturday #Caturday again and here are some kitty drawings from my sketchbook archives. Sparta Puss was sleeping on my lap so I did a few quick sketches of her, all on the same page, trying to capture the essence of her cattitude rather than doing a detailed drawing. I like the way the scribblesContinue reading “#Caturday Archives 10”
Scribbling In Paint.
I’m working on a new portrait of my great-niece. She’s got attitude. I did the preliminary sketch a couple of weeks ago (here). I found a canvas with a failed painting on it and covered it in a thin layer of magenta Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic paint, letting some of the discarded painting come through.Continue reading “Scribbling In Paint.”
#Caturday Archives 9
It’s Saturday / Caturday again and here’s one from my kitty archives. One day Sparta Puss stayed still long enough for me to do quite a detailed drawing of her, perched on top of our vintage glass display cabinet that we found in the street one day. Not sure if it’s a 1930s one orContinue reading “#Caturday Archives 9”
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