This #Caturday Saturday, my negative silhouette of little rescue cat Bill shows a drawing I did a few years back of a carved stone in the little church in Llanrhidian on The Gower Peninsula. I cut the image of Bill from some very heavy textured paper that I recycled, I painted it black and startedContinue reading “#Caturday Silhouette 9.”
Category Archives: sketching
Sketchbook Archives: 23
Here’s a selection of people sketches from my sketchbooks in February 2013. That was 7 years before Covid lockdowns when I used to be out and about scribbling so much. I sort of got out of the habit after lockdown, but also there seem to be far fewer people just hanging out in the cityContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 23”
Sketchbook Archives: 22
Here are a couple of rare landscapes from way back in 2012. I hardly ever portray landscape, I don’t feel much of a connection to be honest, these were done quickly with watercolours during a late summer walk at Mewslade on the Gower Peninsula and I had fun with the shapes and colours, rather thanContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 22”
#Caturday Archives
Back in 2008, I was working with a professional life model, creating a mixed media piece and a very young Sparta Puss walked in the room and hung around, so I drew her too.
A Bit Grinchy.
I haven’t posted for a couple of days because I went and did my back in on New Year’s Eve. OUCH! I’ve never had back pain before, what a shocker! It really stopped me in my tracks for 48 hours and it’s still a bit grinchy. Is that a technical term? 😀 That’s what itContinue reading “A Bit Grinchy.”
Heads And Carols.
Here are a few more heads I sketched at last week’s Christmas Carol and other music performance at The Westbourne pub. There was a great atmosphere with lots of audience participation. I scribbled these quickly with a borrowed Schneider pen, I forgot my usual ballpoint. It gives me a very different line, which took someContinue reading “Heads And Carols.”
Christmas Carols In The Pub.
I went to a nice festive do at a local pub just before Xmas, an evening of live acoustic music. Husb belongs to a choir, Cor Aderyn Du (the Blackbird Choir) who gave a rousing set of medieval carols and there were other performers too. Of course, I had to have a bit of aContinue reading “Christmas Carols In The Pub.”
#Caturday: Sketchbook Kitties.
It’s #Caturday Saturday again and here’s a couple of pages from my sketchbook in 2012. Husb and I had four cats then, so it was easy to find a constant supply of feline models.
Two Minute Head: 4
Christmas has been put to bed for another year and I’m chilling out after the mayhem. I hope everyone has had a nice time. I’ve been doing 2-minute sketches of heads from my scrapbook, just enough time to get the basic features nailed, but not enough time for faffing. It’s good practice.
Two Minute Head: 3
A quick, 2 minute. speed sketch from a load of heads I cut out from newspapers and stuck into a sketchbook. I don’t generally like to draw from photos, but doing it at speed makes it seem more intuitive and less like copying. Well it does to me anyway.
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