Back At The Bunkhouse: 2

I saw another back at the Bunkhouse and a side-view too, so I had to have a scribble. Husb and I were there on Saturday night, enjoying some funky vibes.

Back At The Bunkhouse:1

Husb and I went to a gig at The Bunkhouse on Saturday and I had to have a scribble. I saw this guy’s back and wanted to draw him from behind. So I did.

#Caturday Archives: 26

Here’s a drawing from June 2014, when Husb and I visited the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna. I saw this wonderful sculpture of a cat by Franz Barwig and scribbled it.

A Silver Anniversary

This year is the 25th anniversary of the opening of Swansea Print Workshop, where I spend many happy hours drawing and making prints, usually linocuts or woodcuts but also sometimes etchings and screenprints. It’s a great facility for artists across South Wales and it’s entirely run by the members who are the artists who use it. The top picture is the anniversary book we made – 25 prints by 23 members. On the bottom left our oldest press, a Columbian dating from 1855; and bottom right our new silver anniversary door.

Some Historic Masking…

This is from my archives, March 2014 and Husb and I were invited to a party where people were asked to wear masks representing an artist or art work. I bought some cheap masks from the kids’ section in a supermarket and got to work with some acrylic paints. Husb did his with felt-tip pens.

Can you guess us?

Husb is Salvador Dali and I’m the Chinese Girl (Green Lady) by Tretchikoff.

Picnic On The Beach

It was a picnic on the beach a few weeks ago, snatched when we had no idea how long this heatwave was going to last, making the most of it, sandy sandwiches and all.

Mulberry Paper And The Ghost Prints

Here are some of my little linocuts on the drying rack at Swansea Print Workshop. I’ve printed the block, “Should Bill Get Some Bacon?”, with a golden yellow mulberry paper as chine collé but I also took secondary, or “ghost” prints each time onto tissue paper to prevent the build-up of ink on the block. The little ghost prints are quite sweet in their own right.

Joio! Enjoy!

Husb and I went to the Amplitude music festival in Swansea this evening, a free event put on by Swansea Council as part of it’s “Joio! Enjoy!” summer programme. The aim of the festival is to give local talent a chance to reach new audiences. It was fab and I had a scribble, of course. The band on stage is the irrepressible Disco Panther, soooo funky!!! Catch them if you can.

#Caturday Saturday

I acquired some second hand Derwent Aquatone watercolour sticks recently and I’m giving them a try-out. I used a stencil I made of our little rescue cat William Chatnoir aka Bill, to draw a couple of outlines onto some heavyweight Khadi paper and used an Escoda brush to start blending three different blues together. Not sure where I’m going to take this…..

Sketchbook Archives: 40

Technically, not sketchbooks, they’re paintings, although they started out as sketches so I’m stretching it a bit 😀 I made these paintings of fellow Swansea artists between March and May 2014, and in between I spent April on an artist residency in Pakistan. They were exhibited in the Fringe Arts Bath festival later that year. I love drawing but to be honest I find that painting bores me, it’s like colouring-in once the drawing is done.