Scribbling In The Waiting Room: 2

A couple more head sketches from yesterday’s visit to our local A&E department (nothing serious as it turned out). People are quite still and easier to draw.

Scribbling In The Waiting Room: 1

I was in the A&E (ER) department today, nothing serious as it turns out. It’s a long process having tests and waiting for results so I did a bit of sketching. People tend to be quite still and quiet in waiting rooms. I had a bit of fun with cross-hatching with this one.

Just Watching And Scribbling.

I’ve got a few days off work and I did something I used to do a lot before Covid lockdowns, about once a week I’d go to a cafe for a cuppa and have a scribble as well. Cafes are good places for sketching as people are often absorbed in conversation or thought, so it’s easy to draw them incognito. I fell out of the habit when the lockdowns started, I must get back into the habit again as these little spontaneous drawings are really important for my art practice.

Sketchbook Archives: 24

Looking back to my blog posts in March 2013, I was drawing a lot of heads in my sketchbooks. It’s good practice to sketch quickly at random, it really trains you to identify the necessary details and get them down.

#StandingStoneSunday – Y Garreg Coch

Y Garreg Goch

Here’s my mixed media work featuring Y Garreg Coch (the Red Stone), a Neolithic monument in Carmarthenshire. Throughout 2016 I did a large series of drawings of standing stones, en plein air as we artists call it. I was accompanied by archaeologist Dewi Bowen who was researching his new book on Neolithic / Bronze Age monuments (Hunting The Wild Megalith) and filmmaker Melvyn Williams. 

#Caturday Silhouette 9.

This #Caturday Saturday, my negative silhouette of little rescue cat Bill shows a drawing I did a few years back of a carved stone in the little church in Llanrhidian on The Gower Peninsula. I cut the image of Bill from some very heavy textured paper that I recycled, I painted it black and started to experiment with it. I’m enjoying the process, creating so many different images with some quite basic materials.

Sketchbook Archives: 23

Here’s a selection of people sketches from my sketchbooks in February 2013. That was 7 years before Covid lockdowns when I used to be out and about scribbling so much. I sort of got out of the habit after lockdown, but also there seem to be far fewer people just hanging out in the city too.

#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 5

I worked with a group of adult students to produce a range of gel-plate prints, exploring colour and texture with leaves and grasses, recycled materials like bubblewrap, and carved wooden blocks. Then we ripped them up into tiny pieces and used them to construct 4 collages on A3 sized paper. These collages were heading for an exhibition at The Senedd and the A3 originals were scanned and expanded to fit 4 panels, around 4 metres high. So the tiny fragments have taken on a different dimension entirely, we’re able to see the tiniest of details on a huge scale. The exhibition is called “Home, The Key To Hope” and it’s centred around artwork and writing by people who have recently experienced homelessness It’s free and runs until February 13th.

#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 4

Here’s another giant blow up of a small collage made from tiny fragments of gel-plate prints. It’s part of an exhibition for The Senedd, the Welsh Government building in Cardiff. The exhibition is called “Home, The Key To Hope” and it’s centred around artwork and writing by people who have recently experienced homelessness. I took the lead on creating a giant display of collages that are exhibited on 4 enormous panels, about 4 metres high.

#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 3

Over the past few months I’ve been working with a group of adult students to develop an exhibition for The Senedd, the Welsh Government building in Cardiff. I took the lead on creating a giant display of collages that are exhibited on 4 enormous panels, about 4 metres high. Each of these panels was originally made on A3 size paper, using fragments of gel-plate prints, ripped up and reassembled in the collages. These were then scanned and enlarged to about 4 x 2.5 metres and printed onto plastic for display. I’m loving the results, the enlargement shows textures and patterns that would not be noticed on the original tiny scale.