I’ve been playing with small designs today, random images onto 45mm circles using brush and ink, graphite sticks, Sharpie pens and coloured pencils. It’s for an adult education project I’m working on ….. there’s more to come.
Playing Small
More Porto Pavement People.
Some more of the very quick sketches I did last week on holiday. I like to stand on the pavement and speedily scribble people walking along, most people move quite fast. I prefer to follow someone from when they’re quite a way down the road.
I used a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen, size S, into a tiny textured sketchbook.
Porto Pavement People.
I sometimes stand on the pavement and scribble people walking along. Most people move quite quickly so my sketches are speedy. I generally spot someone when they’re quite a way down the road and follow them as they get closer, focusing on the essence of the figure, not the details. I did a few of these when Husb and I were in Porto last week.
I used a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen, size S, into a tiny textured sketchbook.
The Rediscovered Sketchbook.
Sometimes I put a sketchbook down and forget about it for months or even years. I don’t know why I do it, some of them just seem to fall out of favour or maybe a I fall in love with the novelty of a new one. This little leather-clad book is one of these. I found it at the back of one of my sketchbook shelves just before I went on holiday last week. Some of the sketches go back 9 years but there’s still plenty of paper in it. So I took it with me and did some quickie sketches with my Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens.
Old And New
Here’s another sketch I did on holiday in Porto, Portugal last week. It was very hot (for me anyway) and Husb and I took refuge in the beautiful Crystal Palace garden near our little hotel. There was loads to sketch there but I settled on this view of an old statue, probably 19th century, in front of a very modern building across the road. I scribbled it with a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen, size S first, then added in some colour washes with Derwent Inktense blocks.
Strange Trees In The Dark.
I was so taken with the odd pollards in the Porto park, Jardim da Cordoaria, that I went back the next evening with my landscape Khadi sketchbook and Derwent Inktense blocks and spent a while drawing the strange trees in a mix of natural night-time darkness and harsh orange/yellow street lighting.
Pollards In A Park In Porto
Husb and I went away for a few days, which is why I haven’t blogged recently. It’s our first trip outside the UK since before Covid19 and to be honest I was nervous, but we met up with family from different parts of the world in Porto in Portugal and it was so lovely. The city is wonderful and I became fascinated with these pollarded Platanus Gigantus, I haven’t seen pollarding like this before, in a park near our hotel, Jardim da Cordoaria. I sat and sketched with a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen and a stick of charcoal into a very small pocket sketchbook.
Going To A New Home….
In a few weeks some of my many sketchbooks will be going to a new home in a permanent public collection. But I can’t tell you where just yet. I’m teasing you 🙂
Another Head.
Another head drawn the other night at Swansea’s Volcano Theatre. I love drawing when I’m out, catching people unawares, absorbed in their own world.
At the gig.
Went to a gig last night with Husb, of course I had to have a scribble.
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