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.
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.
…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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As well as an artist, I’m also an educator and I love to work in community arts with adults. The 9to90 Creative Community is one I work with a lot and they’re having an exhibition at Elysium Gallery in Swansea. On one of the walls is displayed the acrylic painted portraits I taught them. I think they look fabulous grouped together like this. Most of these paintings were done in 3 hours at the most, not bad eh? I’m really proud of them.
If you’d like to visit this lovely exhibition, and maybe catch a drink in the bar, check out the poster above.
