Another little sketch from the Riverside Folk Club last week. I used ink drawing pens and I made a mistake drawing his hand so I filled in his jumper with Nitram charcoal to cover it up. Cheating or creative license? 😀
Husb sings in a local community choir, Aderyn Du Brynmill Blackbirds, and they gave a short performance of Medieval Christmas Carols at the Riverside Folk Club in Loughor earlier this week. I tagged along and of course, I had to have a scribble. Here are two of the performers that I caught with my drawing pens.
Husb sings in a local community choir, Aderyn Du Brynmill Blackbirds, and they gave a short performance of Medieval Christmas Carols at the Riverside Folk Club in Loughor earlier this week. I tagged along and of course, I had to have a scribble. The duo on the left is done using the continuous line technique and on the right I used blind contour drawing, watching the model the whole time I was drawing him and never looking at the paper. It’s hard to resist the urge to sneak a look!
Husb and I went to the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery a few days ago. Of course, I had to have a scribble…..
Here’s my Mari Lwyd linocut for this year. I cut the block a couple of weeks ago and did some proof prints at the 9-to-90 Creative Community to demonstrate the chine collé technique. But I wanted something different, rather than the usual tissue papers, for this year’s annual print. I went to the latest exhibition at GS Artists on Friday and there was a large plate of Tunnocks Teacakes, which are covered in lovely stripy, shiny foil. So I asked the people there to eat the cakes and give me the foil, and they really stepped up! And I love the effect.
This is the third exhibition that I've put work into in just over a week. It's been a bit bonkers! This is a show by the artists and photographers who drew, painted and filmed throughout the recent Swansea Fringe. It was heaven! I drew in rock venues while my ears took a hammering from Metal, Rock and Punk. AWESOME!!!!! 
The show is in Orchard Street Gallery which is part of HQ Urban Kitchen on Swansea’s Orchard Street and runs through to the end of January.
The other venues showing my work are Cinema&Co.ffee and GS Artists.
Art is often seen as highbrow and serious but art is also fun and Husb and I had a great time this evening at GS Artist’s opening event for this year’s 9to90 Creative Community Annual Show – and collage session. Swansea artist Rachael Barry provided the inspiration to chill out and have a good time with Shirley Bassey and Max Boyce. The gallery was serving mince pies (my favourites) and Tunnock’s Teacakes, which have a distinctive stripy foil wrapper. So, waste not, want not, I used the wrappers to create my Max Boyce collage.
Husb on the other hand, decide to merge Max and Shirley to create “Shmax”!
The exhibition continues tomorrow, Saturday 2nd December (11.00 to 16.00) and then Tuesdays to Fridays, 11.00 – 16.00, to December 15th.
I was at a meeting this evening, The Friends Of The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery’s Annual General Meeting, and I spotted this chap in a stripey shirt. Of course I had to have a scribble, in Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens into a smooth, cloth-bound A5 sketchbook.
Here’s a little scribble I did this evening at a public meeting in the Saint Thomas area of Swansea to look at objections to the proposed Skyline development on Swansea’s Eastside. If you want to take a look at the Planning Application Comments section, please click here.
I’m starting to develop a new linocut a part of a new group project by Swansea Print Workshop (more to come on this). The subject I have chosen is the South Wales Miners’ Wives during the strike in the 1980s. I knew one of the wives, she was featured in the film Pride, those women were so brave, I admired them so much at the time (still do) and I’ve wanted to do some art about their heroic struggle for a long time.
I started by Googling Miners Wives UK images and selected about a dozen that I thought had an interesting composition. These are for practice, to get familiar with the subject and to start the process of observation. One thing that strikes me about this one is how much bigger than the women the police are. I know men are generally bigger, but this image really brings it home to me. The women are little dwts. This is sketched in graphite into a Khadi sketchbook.
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