Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop. Tonight’s pose gave me a go at some terrific foreshortening, with the right hand and foot thrust forward. Drawn with a Samsung Galaxy Tablet Note 8 using the free Markers app in 40 minutes.
More BIG Stuff
Back to the Creative Bubble artspace in the city centre today with fellow artist, collagist Sylvie Evans. We’re both part of the 15 Hundred Lives collective and we’re using the space all week to work big and try out some new ideas.
On Friday and Saturday we’ll be opening the doors so that people can come in and see us if they want to get an idea of what goes into making art.
Here’s the one I did yesterday, focusing on light and shade.
Working BIG
I’m spending a few days in an artspace in the city centre with a fellow artist, we want to work big so we’re basing ourselves in Creative Bubble until the end of the week and doing massive stuff on the walls. I’m working from sketchbook life drawings, in charcoal and chalk on brown wrapping paper.
My colleague from the 15 Hundred Lives collective, Sylvie Evans, is working on a massive collage. We’re going to open the doors to the public at the end of the week so people can see how we work.
And this evening I went for a paddle in Swansea Bay. It’s gorgeous. I’m so lucky to live here.
Gestures On The Beach
I was on the beach in Swansea Bay again earlier, having a walk and a workout on the outdoor gym equipment. I stopped awhile to have a bit of a scribble into my little spotty sketchbook, size A6, with a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen size S.
Typically called gesture drawings, these speedy sketches force you to analyse quickly and just get down the fundamentals, no time for the details.
Silly Slippers
Today has been hectic with visits to Cardiff in the afternoon and Trebanos this evening. Got back home about 10.30 pm so I was straight into my pajamas and silly slippers and that’s what I have sketched into my Samsung Galaxy Tablet Note 8 using the free Markers app.
Bedtime now 🙂
Who Wears Short Shorts?
We wear short shorts! It’s summer and everyone on the beach is in shorts. It’s the law lol 🙂 I stopped for a scribble with my tiny spotty A6 sketchbook and a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen size S. There’s Mumbles in the background. The name allegedly comes from the French, Mamelles, or breasts, spotted by French sailors arriving into Swansea Bay. Those French! And behind Mumbles, across the sea, is England, the hills of North Devon.
Wrong! Wrong! Not Too Bad!
Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop. Not had a good time, didn’t take my mojo with me. My first two drawings were clunky and didn’t work at all. So I gave up trying to draw the full figure and focused on his head. It was better.
I’ve worked with this model before, quite successfully, but I used different media. I decided to give charcoal and chalk on newspaper a go this evening and I couldn’t really get into it. But ho hum. That’s the way it goes sometimes.
Scribbling Overlay
Husb was hoovering around the house so I followed him with my Samsung Galaxy Tablet Note 8, scribbling with the free Markers app.
He moves fast when he’s doing housework so I had to do speed sketches. It’s a bit cumbersome to keep resetting the little computer box to do new drawings and I didn’t want to faff around doing that, so I changed the colour of the line and drew over the top.
Feline Muse
Had another long day behind a computer and ended up sitting in front of the telly quite late with a cat sleeping on my lap. I haven’t done any drawing so far today so the cat will have to be my model. She likes posing. I have used my Samsung Galaxy Tablet Note 8, with a free Markers app.
Badly Drawn Man
I’ve been really busy with computer stuff and family doings today and I had to snatch a few minutes to do today’s sketch just now. I bought ‘Game Of Thrones’ earlier and here’s Husb reading it on the settee. It’s huge. A lot of what artists make isn’t very good, that’s why old canvasses have often been overpainted. This is one of those. It would be tempting just to put my ‘best’ work on this blog but that isn’t the reality of being an artist. Sometimes it’s not good. Lots of times, in fact.
Drawn with a Samsung Galaxy Tablet Note 8 using the free Markers app.
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