Always Room For Improvement

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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.

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Still Learning

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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.

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Boomtime Again

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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.

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What Am I Up To Now? [6]

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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.

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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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What Am I Up To Now? [5]

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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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What Am I Up To? [4]

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Working away at Galerie Simpson on my short residency. One of my ‘ideas’ drawings and my work station.

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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Silbury Sunset

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Husb and I had a few days away, visiting friends in the south of England. We drove back today across ancient landscape and stopped for a little while at the most extraordinary Silbury Hill, just as the Autumn sun was setting.

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One For My American Chums

Having a couple of days away and had a wander around Lewes in East Sussex today and chanced upon the White Hart Inn where Thomas Paine was known to have imbibed. His political views apparently inspired American Revolutionaries.

 

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What Am I Up To? [3]

Working on something new in a short residency at the fab Galerie Simpson. Out of my comfort zone, working out the logistics of constructing prints and drawings in three dimensions. Ooooff. I’m a very 2D person!

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I’m also continuing my “en plein air” journey of discovery with prehistorian  Dewi Bowen  and filmmaker Melvyn Williams as we travel along the route of the legendary Boar Hunt, Y Twrch Trwyth, from the story of Culhwch and Olwen in the Mabinogion, the book of Welsh mythology, researching, filming and drawing the ancient stone monuments along the way.

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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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What Am I Up To Now? [2]

I’m doing a short residency at the lovely Galerie Simpson on Swansea’s High Street and I’m working on something very new and out of my comfort zone……

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I’ve been incorporating text into my work on and off for some years – I’m experimenting with some new pens, Uni Pen Fine Line. Looking good. I need pens to be waterproof and lightfast as well as being good to draw with.

 

I’m also continuing my “en plein air” journey of discovery with prehistorian  Dewi Bowen  and filmmaker Melvyn Williams as we travel along the route of the legendary Boar Hunt, Y Twrch Trwyth, from the story of Culhwch and Olwen in the Mabinogion, the book of Welsh mythology, researching, filming and drawing the ancient stone monuments along the way.

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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.

Quoit