I went to an illustrated talk by Andrew Renton at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery yesterday, part of the excellent Tigers and Dragons exhibition. It was dark as the projector was on, but I had a scribble anyway. It’s good practice to draw in varying degrees of light and dark, I think. This guy was really absorbed in the talk, it was very interesting.
Here’s a #Caturday Saturday sketch from November 2014 of SpartaPuss having a snooze. I started it when she was awake but had to abandon it and restart when she dozed off.
I went out walking in the dark one evening, down to the beach (I’m so lucky to live so close to the sea) and I took a pad of Khadi paper that I had brushed with a thin layer of black ink, to give a grey wash. I took some black and white conté crayons with me and with minimal strokes, I sketched in the reflection of the moon on the water . Sometimes less is more.
Here are some people drawings from way back in June 2014, mostly in pen into a sketchbook but the last one is a digital scribble on my old Samsung Note 8 tablet, using a free Markers app. I did a bit of travelling that month, to London and Vienna. I used to travel a lot before Covid lockdown, I’ve lost my confidence since. I must try and do some more travelling, maybe this Winter?
Two blokes in short trousers at the night of heavy metal gig at Elysium last Saturday. Couldn’t resist scribbling them. The line up was fab…SUMP, Wall, Pyriah and Suns of Thunder. Very heavy, loved it.
Before Covid (remember those days?) I used to go regularly to Waterstones Bookshop café to sit and sketch as it was so peaceful. It’s taken me a long time to go back to some of my pre-Covid habits, but I hope to reinstate this one. I popped in there today for a coffee and a scribble. There were quite a few young-ish people working on laptops, possibly students studying. They were absorbed in what they were doing so I could sketch away without them noticing. I used a blue ballpoint pen into my A6 cloth-bound sketchbook.
At the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery again on Friday, for a really good talk about the origins of the Welsh Red Dragon, by Professor Helen Fulton. Of course, I had a scribble.
The talks are supported by The Friends of the Glynn Vivian and are free. The next one is on Saturday October 4th by Andrew Renton.
Here’s another digital drawing from October 2014, with our darling Little Ming, a tiny but feisty and fluffy Naughty Tortie. This drawing also features my outrageously coloured slippers, socks and dressing gown. I still have the dressing gown, it’s lasted well, just the ticket for wrapping up warm on cold, dark nights.
I used a free Markers app on a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 tablet.
It’s been a gorgeous day, sunny and warm but not too warm, Autumnal. Husb and I hopped in the car around 4.30 and headed off out of the busy centre to Penllegare Woods, a truly magical place on the outskirts of the city. We spent an hour or so walking through the beautiful woodland, past the lake and waterfall, and came back calm, serene and tired. I stopped for a few minutes to have a scribble, in graphite onto Khadi handmade paper.
Some very quick sketches here, from June 2014. One of the good things of having little relatives is that they get very busy when you take them to the beach, a great chance to do some speed sketching.
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