Back to basics Back to basics today with a little bit of sketching. I’m going to try and do a good few of these over the coming week. I’ve been neglecting my sketchbook work for a while, which is really slack of me. Sketching is good practice and I need to take it more seriously.Continue reading “Sketching, Masking And An Explosive Pudding”
Category Archives: out and about
Queueing In The Park
It was a gorgeous day so Husb and I went walking with a nephew in our ‘bubble’ to Cwmdonkin Park where the little café was open for the first time in many months, serving takeaways. Husb joined the queue while nephew and I sat on a park bench, soaking up the Spring sunshine which wasContinue reading “Queueing In The Park”
A Quick Scribble
Today I went to the beach. It isn’t far, just a few minutes walk, but I have hardly been there for months, what with the winter weather and the pandemic lockdown. But today was gorgeous, warm and sunny, and the Covid19 restrictions have been eased and the vaccination programme is going well. I had aContinue reading “A Quick Scribble”
Recycling And Creating
I’m an educator as well as an artist and I’ve spent many years working in adult learning with people who have, for various reasons, been excluded from education to some degree. I work a couple of days a week for a national charity for people who are homeless or vulnerably housed. Covid19 lockdown has beenContinue reading “Recycling And Creating”
Speed Scribbling At The Vaccination Centre
I had the first of my Covid19 vaccinations today, what a relief. And a lovely day out as the vaccination centre is in the beautiful Margam Park Orangery. The most excitement I’ve had in months! There was a little bit of sitting down to do, so I did some very speedy continuous line sketches. TheContinue reading “Speed Scribbling At The Vaccination Centre”
Out Of The Attic….Into The Sunset
At last I’ve got the confidence to get stuck into a painting that isn’t a copy of one of the greats or a portrait of my cat. I’ve spent my life drawing and printmaking, rarely painting, so this is pretty new for me. I re-used a large canvas I tried painting on about 8 yearsContinue reading “Out Of The Attic….Into The Sunset”
Déja Vu Drawing
Back at the start of Lockdown number 1 – remember that, in March 2000 – I started drawing on my daily government sanctioned exercise walks, using willow charcoal into a Khadi handmade paper sketchbook that a friend had sent me for Xmas. My dear friend sent me another this Xmas and Lockdown number 3 startedContinue reading “Déja Vu Drawing”
Uncle Bryn In Gouache
I finished this gouache portrait sketch of the Welsh actor Rob Brydon, in his incarnation as Uncle Bryn from Gavin and Stacey. It’s for the GS Artists / 9-to-90 Creative Community Art Festival in Swansea. Last year the subject was Michael Sheen – I did him in embroidery. I think I got a better likenessContinue reading “Uncle Bryn In Gouache”
Nearly But Not Quite
I did some more painting today – what’s going on with me? I’ve hardly painted since I was in art college back in the 1970s and now I can’t stop. The fabulous GS Artists have been organising free art tutorials, a mixture of Zoom and on-site (observing safety protocols of course). It’s part of theContinue reading “Nearly But Not Quite”
Drawing The Bronze Age Mines
I did this sketch a few days ago while Husb and I were driving back from Devil’s Bridge, via the mountain road to Rhayader. We stopped for a while at these old mines going back to the Bronze Age, near Cwmystwyth. The earliest miners about 4,000 years ago extracted copper, but from Roman times theContinue reading “Drawing The Bronze Age Mines”
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