I did a second day drawing 30 minute portraits at Swansea Museum today. I am working on a potentially large body of drawings of Baby Boomers that I hope to develop into a major work in a year or so. A lot of people are volunteering to sit for me, there’s been a terrific responseContinue reading “Heads At The Museum”
Category Archives: People watching
Pre Teen Lethargy
Our pre-teen nephew is having a sleepover with us. He’s annexed the large settee with the best view of the television and installed himself for the duration. He’s at a funny stage of development with his face starting to assume adult proportions, but still quite squished up in a large head which sort of wobblesContinue reading “Pre Teen Lethargy”
Curry House Quickie
Went out for a belated birthday curry with some of my lovely family this evening, an eat-as-much-as-you-like buffet mmmmmmmnomnomnom. They had a particularly good sag aloo. Of course, I did a quick scribble into my A5 hardbacked sketchbook with my Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens.
Fasto
It’s been a hectic few days and it won’t let up until tomorrow afternoon, when I think I will go to bed for a few days! I was up in London last Thursday, did loads of things but managed a quick sketch on the Tube. This chap was cat-napping through his evening commute. He wasContinue reading “Fasto”
A Distinguished Head
Here’s another of the 30 minute portrait drawings I did recently at Swansea Museum. Not easy getting a likeness and a reasonable drawing in such a short time and of course I can see everything that’s wrong with it! If I was doing a formal portrait then this would have been the first of severalContinue reading “A Distinguished Head”
Stick People
Husb and I spent the last day of our short Belgian break having a wander around Brussels in the unseasonal heat. We stopped under the shade of a tree in a park for a while and watched while a group of young men kicked a ball around. I scribbled them, they moved fast and wereContinue reading “Stick People”
Cabinet Of Curiosities
Here’s another of the 30 minute portrait drawings I did at Swansea Museum last Sunday. I have been asking people I know who are Baby Boomers to volunteer to sit for me as I want to build up a large collection of 30 minute portrait drawings over the next year or so in preparation forContinue reading “Cabinet Of Curiosities”
Changeable
I did this sketch from a digital photo I took a couple of weeks ago on Swansea Beach. The weather has changed radically since then, today’s walk was in brilliant sunshine, not like the wind and drizzle these poor tourists were putting up with. It’s a useful exercise to draw from photos occasionally, to analyseContinue reading “Changeable”
Thirty Minutes
Here’s another of the 30-minute portrait sketches I did yesterday during my drawing day at Swansea Museum. I used Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens into an A5 hardbacked spiral bound sketchbook. I would normally do a number of quick preliminary sketches so it’s quite a challenge to do a decent drawing that is also aContinue reading “Thirty Minutes”
All Drawn Out
I spent most of today at Swansea Museum drawing people. I did 7 portrait drawings in 5 hours in Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens into an A5 hard backed spiral bound sketchbook. Here’s the first – of a large series I hope. And now I’m off to bed, shattered. Goodnight 🙂
