Now this will be ongoing as I’m planning quite a lot of work around legs over the next few months. But the staring point with me is drawing, always drawing, so I’ll be practicing sketching legs and boots for a while. At this stage, I’m getting used to perspective and foreshortening and also the actual make-up of boots and trainers. They’re complicated, what sort of mind designs them? I really struggle to draw them to be honest, which is why I need the practice.
I carried on playing with the coloured papers from the other day, zooming in on sections and enlarging them to see what they looked like. I don’t know if it will lead to anything, but sometimes you’ve got to just chill out and play a bit in order to develop.
I used Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic and an offcut of Bockingford 280gsm paper, scraping with a palette knife.
In April 2014, I went to Pakistan on an artist residency. It was amazing!!! What a fantastic country. Here are some of my sketches and the last photo is of me and fellow Swansea artist Hannah Lawson at the entrance to our group show exhibition in Islamabad. It was such an exciting month. I loved the clothes I bought there.
I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather for a few days so I had an easygoing Sunday, staying at home and not doing very much, like Sundays used to be when I was a kid. I had a scribble, looking at a corner of our living room from my comfy spot on the settee.
It’s getting stormy outside, Autumn is definitely here so Husb and I and cwtched inside the house with the cats. I had a quick scribble when Sparta Puss sat next to me. She was looking a bit cross, but that’s not unusual for her!
Just chilling last night with Husb and Sparta Puss. I had a little scribble. Bill aka William ChatNoir was lounging in another room.
I’m going to be sketching lots of boots for a while, practicing different angles and styles of footwear, doing the groundwork for some future compositions.
I played around with some paint (Liquitex Heavy Body) and offcuts of paper (Bockingford 280gsm) and a palette knife, scraping the paint over the surface to make the most of the texture. I ripped the offcuts up and arranged them onto backing paper, to see what happened, then took photos of the compositions that I liked. Total abstraction.
Husb and I normally go to metal and rock gigs, but for a change we went along to Mission Gallery in Swansea yesterday to listen to a performance of the Welsh Triple Harp by the harpist (y delynor) Robin Huw Bowen. It was enchanting. I’ve never heard anything like it. Husb and I loved it. I’d love to hear ACDC’s THUNDERSTRUCK on a Welsh Triple Harp. I think it could be awesome.
I wanted to do more sketches but I was so transported by the music that I only managed one. The performance was the closing event for the “Merched ar Llestri” exhibition by Lowri Davies and Elinor Gwynn. If you’re in Swansea, pop in to Mission, it’s a fascinating little place on Swansea’s historic dockside.
Here’s a digital drawing of the Late, Great Little Ming, a tiny, fluffy, pretty one-eyed Naughty Tortie, who was also the scourge of our local vet’s surgery! We could pick her up, cwtch her, snuggle her, but when she was put into a cat basket and taken to the vet, she turned into a demon! I drew this using a free Markers app on a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 tablet.
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