Here’s the final tiny quick sketches I did in my little leather-bound sketchbook on Sunday. I was at Rosehill Quarry’s annual meet-up to tidy the Cretan Labyrinth. Each year the edges need to be recut, the old trampled cockle shells removed and new ones laid.
The labyrinth was cut in 1987 when Swansea’s Rosehill Quarry was being developed into a unique urban wildlife park. It was installed by Bob Shaw and local author and pre-historian Dewi Bowen.
A couple of very quick little sketches from the annual labyrinth maintenance at Rosehill Quarry. I had to work quickly because people moved fast. Very good practice though
Back in 1987 a Labyrinth was cut into the turf in Swansea’s Rosehill Quarry, a unique urban wildlife park. It was installed by Bob Shaw and local author and pre-historian Dewi Bowen. It’s based on an ancient Cretan design and the incised path is filled with crushed cockle shells that are a by-product of the local seafood industry. Every year local people meet up, bring a picnic to share and recut the labyrinth edges and refill the path with new cockle shells, donated by Swansea Council.
I strolled up the hill today and found a good point to have a scribble. I did a few quick preliminary sketches into a tiny sketchbook and then worked up this larger one into my Khadi landscape book, using Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens sizes S and M, and Derwent Inktense watercolour blocks.
Husb and I went to a birthday bash this evening for some friends who are both 50, in a local rugby club. It was fun, a buffet with cocktail pasties, mini sausage rolls and coronation chicken sarnies. And the rambunctious Green Dragon Band playing crowd pleasers that filled the dance floor. Great stuff. Of course, I had to have a scribble!
And here’s the last of the Heavy Metal legs in my little sketchbook. This is a very scribbly pair of legs. The hot summer is bringing out the shorts and I get to see close up just how big men’s feet really are when they’re not partially covered with the bottom of trousers.
And even more legs in shorts from the Suns of Thunder gig at Elysium last week. The sunshine is bringing them out! In my tiny leatherbound sketchbook using Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen (size S) and nitrile charcoal stick.
And some more heavy metal legs. I was in a tight space in the audience for Suns of Thunder at Elysium the other night so I looked down and drew what I saw, lots of men’s legs in shorts with some pretty groovy foreshortening. Foreshortening isn’t a biscuit by the way 😀
And another pair of legs from Heavy Metal night last weekend. Loved listening to the music, loved drawing people’s legs and shoes.
More legs from the heavy metal gig at Elysium the other evening, with Suns of Thunder. It’s not the easiest to draw in the middle of a crowd, but it gave me some great foreshortening to work with. I used the continuous line drawing method to get the positioning and proportions right.
Husb and I went out to see a heavy metal band the other evening, locals Suns Of Thunder at Elysium. Fantastic – very loud, very dancy – I had to have a scribble! I had my tiny leather-bound sketchbook with me and it’s too small for a lot of detail so, what to draw? I looked around and there they were, lots of heavy metal legs in shorts, big footwear and tattoos. I don’t often get a chance to draw lots of legs like these, close up in a crowd, so I made the most of it.
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