Finished…For Now

Here’s the slow selfie that I’ve been working on for a while, on and off. It’s more or less finished but I’ve reached that stage where I can’t see the wood for the trees and so I’m going to leave it for a couple of months and look at it again, to see what, if anything, I want to alter. I’ve used Liquitex Heavy Body paint, Daler-Rowney and Escodar brushes, and an A4 canvas board.

I started it I as a demonstration piece when I was teaching at GS Artists’ weekly arts group, the 9to90 Creative Community. It’s taken me about 4 hours so far.

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Here’s a digital drawing of Sparta Puss from May 2014, when she was coming up to 5 years old. The nice thing about sketching on my Galaxy Tablet Note 8 is that I could hit the “save” button regularly and make a record of the stages of the drawing. I used a Markers free app which I really liked because it gave me the freedom to scribble.

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February 2014 was a month of mostly digital drawing, and I continued January’s animal theme with these little studies of foxes. Eleven years ago I had rarely seen a fox in the city, now I see loads, along with bats, squirrels, seagulls and birds of prey – kestrels, red kites and occasionally peregrine falcons. We’re making the city a safe and rewarding place for wildlife. I guess one reason is the amount of fast food outlets and restaurants these days, but also far fewer dogs and cats are allowed to roam loose, so there are many more rats around, and these make good fodder for predators. I used a free Markers app on a Samsung Galaxy Note 8.

Can’t Stop Drawing Them…

…Big Boots!

I Like Big Boots…

…and I cannot lie! There seems to be a trend for enormous boots at the moment, I’m noticing it as I draw heavy metal legs at local gigs.

Drawing In The Dark

Out gallivanting at a gig again on Saturday night, having a scribble as ever. It was very dark and this bloke was all in black with long black hair and this is what I ended up with.

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It’s such a long time ago now, that I did a month-long artist residency in Pakistan, it was wonderful. And I met a Pakistani cat called Messi. So I drew him. I was going through a digital drawing phase at the time, using a free Markers app on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8.

And More Legs Inked And Printed.

I didn’t stop at one pair of heavy metal legs, oh no, I did another (and I’ve got a third pair on the go). I’ve been drawing loads of them at gigs and I’m having a bit of fun carving them into lino and printing them up. They’re different to the ones I posted yesterday. Honest. Check 😀 This is a first proof, using Cranfield Caligo Safewash Relief ink onto Hosho paper, taken with a Japanese Baren.

Legs – Inked And Printed.

Here’s the first print of my little linocut “Heavy Metal Legs” that I based on many sketches of legs at heavy metal gigs in recent years. It’s a 10 x 10 cm square ready for submission to Miniprint Cymru.

Inking Up My Legs…

Well, not my legs exactly, my little lino block based on my series of sketches called “Heavy Metal Legs”. I’m using black Cranfield Caligo Safewash oil-based Relief Ink and traditional grey lino. I used Flexcut tools to cut the block.