We have some little relatives staying for a sleepover and of course, they are scribbling fodder. My little niece was cwtched on the settee watching a film and I tried to draw her. So very hard! All children are aliens! They have such weird proportions – HUGE eyes, little turned up nose, tiny chin andContinue reading “Almost Manga”
Category Archives: At Home
Richard The Bird’s Holiday
Richard, our family parrot, has come to stay for a couple of weeks while his trained monkeys are on holiday. He’s fair game for a scribble, but he’s such a fidget and won’t keep still. I tried him with a Koh I Noor graphite pencil in 8B first, then went back to my comfort zone,Continue reading “Richard The Bird’s Holiday”
Slobbing Out
Here’s a sleepy cat from a sleepy me. Another one of those evenings when I am slobbing out on my comfy chair with Sparta Puss on the stool. So that’s my daily drawing done. I drew this on my Samsung Galaxy Tablet Note 8 using the free Markers app.
Mindless Telly
What a day. Terrific opening of the new printmaking show at Galerie Simpson earlier. Now I’m shattered and slumped in front of the telly. There isn’t a cat available for sketching, they’re refusing to hang out with the trained monkeys because they’re on the roof bothering magpies, so it’s Husb again. And now, The Voice.Continue reading “Mindless Telly”
End Of The Day
Another long day with little time to draw but the cat, Ming the Merciless is dozing at my feet so it’s another quick cat sketch from me. It’s good practice to draw another species, getting to grips with different anatomy. This is a digital sketch on my Samsung Galaxy Tablet Note 8 using the freeContinue reading “End Of The Day”
The Boy
A little relative lost in his own world. I’m getting the hang of the strange proportions of children’s heads now. They are so very different to adults. Such a different shape, so pointy. The changes they go through are remarkable. Drawn with graphite into my A5 Tate Gallery sketchbook.
Thanks For That
One of those days, I haven’t stopped and now it’s really late and I haven’t done a drawing to blog. So it’s going to be sketches of the cat again. Except she stopped cooperating and went off in a strop, so then poor Husb had to stand in for the cat and just as IContinue reading “Thanks For That”
Another Night, Another Cat
Another quick scribble at the end of the day: another cat. It’s just so easy when I’m slumped on a chair, panicking because I haven’t done a drawing for my blog yet. She’s slumped on the chair too. I get annoyed with myself because I haven’t produced a great masterpiece, or misstresspiece, but the importantContinue reading “Another Night, Another Cat”
Up Above Looking Down.
Just another daily drawing of Husb, at his computer. I stood on a stool and looked down on him. Interesting perspective and foreshortening. I drew into my A5 Tate Gallery sketchbook with a graphite stick, very quickly, certainly less than 10 minutes. And now off to the pub quiz.
Wookey Hole
I was given a stack of vintage art papers by a kind benefactor a while back and I am gradually using them for drawing and printmaking. Today’s daily drawing was done on a beautiful piece of W.S.H. & Co British Handmade Paper, made at the Wookey Hole paper mill near Cheddar in Somerset in theContinue reading “Wookey Hole”
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