Looking through my sketchbook archives for November and December 2014, there are a few animals that are not domestic cats. There’s a lion and some lionesses drawn at Folly Farm, a friend’s dog, and some cyanotypes of pigeons that I had sketched years before.
Category Archives: out and about
Marvel! Exclaim! Enjoy!
It’s Swansea Print Workshop’s annual open weekend next week, Saturday and Sunday 29th and 30th November, from 10.00 – 4.00. Come and marvel at our antique printing presses, exclaim at the Tardis-like ambience of the unusual Victorian building, and enjoy the fabulous array of original prints on exhibition and for sale from our studio artistsContinue reading “Marvel! Exclaim! Enjoy!”
Practice Makes Perfect (But It Takes A While)
Reaching the end of last Thursday’s life drawing sesh at Swansea Print Workshop and I’m only just starting to get to grips with the new model. I keep drawing his eyes too close together, but the likeness improve with each sketch, as it should.
Portrait Drawing Week 3: No Bags And Wrinkles.
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I’m back at life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop after a long, long gap (see here) and I’m using these sessions to practice portrait drawing. I’ve set myself some goals and I’ll probably be doing this every Thursday evening for the next year or so. These areContinue reading “Portrait Drawing Week 3: No Bags And Wrinkles.”
Sketchbook Archives: 50
Looking back at my sketchbooks from November 2014, there were lots of scribbled heads.
Portrait Drawing: Week 2
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I’m back at life drawing after a long, long gap (see here) and I’m using these sessions to practice portrait drawing. I’ve set myself some goals and I’ll probably be doing this every Thursday evening for the next year or so. These are my sketches from weekContinue reading “Portrait Drawing: Week 2”
Tea And Scribbles.
I popped into Waterstones Café in Swansea today, having a quiet half hour, sitting quietly drinking tea and scribbling away. I used the continuous line technique with some cross-hatching using a ballpoint pen into an A6 sketchbook.
The First Of The Samhain Scribblings.
These are the first two scribbles I did in my sketchbook on Samhain / Halloween. I should have posted them first, I guess, not last. It takes a while to warm up so I usually do a couple of very quick ones at the start of a session.
Proofing A Portrait Print
I transferred my portrait drawing to a block of traditional grey lino this week, carved it and took the first proof print from it. I’m quite pleased with the resule. I’m being very strict with time and I did this process from the first pencil mark on paper, through 9 drawings, carving the block andContinue reading “Proofing A Portrait Print”
Halloween sketching
I managed to get a fair few scribbles last weekend on Samhain / Halloween at the Elysium gig, in between headbanging and interesting conversations. The line-up featured Root Zero, Grindhorse 83, Pyrogaric and headliners Adfeilion. I bought a vinyl album by Adfeilion and have been listening to it, it’s fab.
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