Can you believe it’s come round again! It’s #Caturday Saturday and here we are back in December 2016 in North Cyprus. This is one of the semi-feral cats living in our hotel garden. They were very well fed by both guests and staff and mostly quite tame.
Category Archives: sketching
Sketchbook Archives: 62
These are the last 5 of a series of 15 drawings I did in May 2015, based on sketches I made from life, out and about en plein air, drawing real people in real places. They are drawn over “transfer” prints, inkjet prints that are transferred chemically to fine art printmaking paper; mostly I used Bockingford and Somerset. OnceContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 62”
Sketchbook Archives: 61
Here are some more of a series of drawings I did back in May 2015, based on sketches I made from life, out and about en plein air. They are drawn over “transfer” prints, inkjet prints that are transferred chemically to a fine art printmaking paper; mostly I used Bockingford and Somerset.
Sketchbook Archives: 60
I’ve been on holiday for a few days, not far, a Staycation, and it was good to have a rest, stating with old friends on the South Coast of England. I didn’t do much artwork, I just went for long walks and chilled out enjoying lovely conversation. It was grand. Here are some drawings IContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 60”
Life Drawing: Highlights And Midtones
At Swansea Print Workshop we do a lot of recycling and any prints that people leave behind after teaching sessions, ones they were not happy with, are reused in some way. Some that have a clean side are bagged up and sold on for drawing, sketching and proof prints. I bought a bag to useContinue reading “Life Drawing: Highlights And Midtones”
Life Drawing: Paint And Card
I’m just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop and it’s late. I did a graphite sketch of our model onto paper prepared with an olive green acrylic paint, applied with a squeegee, and then used a piece of stiff card to apply some highlights with white acrylic. About 30 minutes in all. GoodContinue reading “Life Drawing: Paint And Card”
One Model, Four Faces
Trying out some different ways of drawing our lovely life model. I used graphite but went from a fairly academic approach, through some slight abstraction focusing on shapes and patterns to a very stylised linear drawing, which I later used for a linocut.
Sketchbook Archives: 59
Another dive into my archives of scribbles and these were done at a public arts event in May 2015, the Fringe Arts Bath. A group of like-minded scribblers from the Swansea area descended on the Bath city centre and did some timed live sketching. It was really exhausting; the weather was very hot and weContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 59”
#Caturday Archives: 49
Can you believe it’s come round again! It’s #Caturday Saturday and here’s Sparta Puss back in September 2016, “helping” me when I was sketching Husb. She likes to “help” a lot, particularly in the garden. I plant things, she pulls them back up. And clean laundry too, needs helping by being lolled upon while I’mContinue reading “#Caturday Archives: 49”
Back To Life Drawing
I’ve finished my artist residency at Swansea’s Urban HQ and slipped back to normal routine with Life Drawing at Swansea Print Workshop last night, working with this lovely model. I pre-coloured some vintage paper with an olive-y green acrylic screen-printing medium and drew onto it with 4B Graphite. I like the look of it in realContinue reading “Back To Life Drawing”
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