Husb and I had a few days away in the north of England, splitting out visit between West Yorkshire and Cumbria. I managed to so some sketching as well as some fairly strenuous walking, historic sight-seeing and visits to friends and relatives. This is a sketch I made in pen (Faber Castell Pitt) and Inktense blocks (Derwent) from the Peggy Braithwaite Hide on the South Walney nature reserve. There were some structures in the sea in the distance that looked like they came from War Of The Worlds.
Here’s a quick sketch I made on Ilkley Moor when Husb and I had a few days away in Yorkshire recently. We walked to see The Badger Stone and I sat and sketched with my Derwent Inktense blocks and some water reservoir pens.
Here’s another little sketch from my recent holiday in Yorkshire. Husb and I went for a stroll around Saltaire and stopped for a cuppa – it was unseasonably warm.
I haven’t posted on this blog for a few days because Husb and I have been away on holiday, exploring the North of England. We spent a happy few hours in Salts Mill in Saltaire, absorbing the fabulous artwork of David Hockney. There’s also a stunning exhibition of photos by Ian Beesley. We had dinner in the cafe and I drew Husb. I liked the way he was clasping his hands and the daffodils in the jar in front of them.
This tree pulled me over. It was broken, fallen, but new trunks had grown up out of it. I was in a very bad place at the time and this tree inspired me with a message of regrowth and regeneration.
Here’s the last of the sketches I made last weekend at the Omnichron gig, a happy audience. It’s nice drawing a group as I can get to practice scale with the different figures there.
A couple of scribbled heads from Friday evening, the gig of fabulous local band Omnichron.
And I picked the first rhubarb of the season today, loads of it in the garden, it’s been unusually warm lately and I think it’s brought the rhubarb along a bit early.
Heads, Hand and Feet, a selection of sketchbook drawings from way back in July 2013, back before Covid19, remember those days? I went through a phase of sticking brown wrapping paper into my sketchbooks and drawing over it. I can’t remember why I stopped, I really like it. I’m not so keen on drawing onto black paper, it’s great when it works but I have a high failure rate.
It’s #Caturday Saturday again and this week I have put the positive silhouette of Our Bill (the rescue cat) onto a rough proof print of my latest Mari Lwyd linocut. I find that with traditional grey lino, it can take one or two attempts to get a good print from a newly cut block, so I usually do a couple of proofs onto cheap paper – this is newsprint. I like it as the background for Bill’s silhouette though, the patchy greyness emphasises her image.
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