When I started this epic task, to draw one hundred people of my generation, the Baby Boomers, there were two things that I found very hard to draw – spectacles and facial hair and the two together were the scariest combo of all. But now, with so much practice ….. not bothered at all …….. Here’s number 88 of my lovely sitters.
There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
I’ve been making cakes for my Open Studio event at Galerie Simpson tomorrow – just finished this gluten-free chocolate and poached pear upside down cake to go with the bara brith (courtesy of Jane Simpson), pineapple upside-down cake and lemon and elderflower drizzle cake.
I’ve been doing some little mashups of my Käthe Kollwitz print and newspaper photos as well as working on my first three-dimensional print construction.
And here it is almost finished. I should have this completed in the next day or two.
There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
I’m getting through these Baby Boomers at quite a rate now, here’s number 87 out of my target of a hundred. My style changes according to the person I’m drawing. Some people require a certain formality and precision of line, others invite a relaxed squiggliness. I’m sure that my phraseology wouldn’t pass muster in a modern artist statement, but I don’t care 😀
There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
I’ve been doing some little mashups with my Käthe Kollwitz stamped prints and some newspaper. They’re stuck onto the windows of Galerie Simpson where I’ve been doing an artist’s residency for the past 3 weeks.
On Saturday I’m having an Open Studio from 10.00 – 16.00 with tea and home-made cakes and the art I’ve been making while I’ve been here. Please pop in 😀
There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
Still working on a new piece of art at my residency at Galerie Simpson on Swansea’s High Street. I’m taking my printmaking out of two dimensions into three and it’s certainly been challenging. Today I’ve been sewing paper together on my lovely Edwardian Singer sewing machine and then overstitching my little stamped prints of German artist Käthe Kollwitz, who is a hero of mine.
My residency will be ending this weekend so I’m having an Open Studio on Saturday, 10.00 to 4.00 so that people can pop in and see what I’ve been up to during the past couple of weeks. There will be tea, coffee and lashings of home-made cake as well. Of course 😀
There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
And another lovely Baby Boomer – I’m on a roll! I set myself the task of drawing 100 Baby boomer, my generation, by the end of this year and here is number 86. I just love doing this, such interesting conversations and faces full of life and experience. It’s developing my drawing skills – there’s always room for improvement. I am using a 4B graphite stick into my spiral bound, hardbacked A4 sketchbook.
There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
This is sitter number 85 out of my target of 100 Baby Boomers sketched by the end of this year. I’ve improved so much in my ability to sketch faces quickly and with reasonable accuracy, some more and some less, while retaining my own style. It’s very different to working with professional models and I’m learning so much from it.
There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
I’m still working on my series of sketches of Baby Boomers, aiming to complete one hundred by the end of this year. This is my 84th sitter and it’s a relief to have done so many now. I love doing these drawings, they are so much more intimate than drawing from photos.
There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
Spent all day at the lovely Galerie Simpson on Swansea’s High Street, printing with my new rubber stamp. It’s been developed from a silkscreen print that was based on a drawing I did of the German artist Käthe Kollwitz, one of my heroes.
There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
More of my ‘ideas’ station at my short residency at Galerie Simpson in Swansea’s High Street. I’m planning on taking drawing and print into three dimensions. Via corsetry.
There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
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