I spent three evenings in rock heaven over the weekend, sketching musicians at Crowley’s Rock Bar for Swansea Fringe. It’s good discipline because you have to be quick to catch performers who, mostly, move around a lot. Although bass players are generally quite still, coolly delivering a killer bass line with hardly a flicker of movement. I adore bass players. Anyway, enough of that! Here are a couple of scribbles from “Ria Plays” set. They’re fab, go and have a listen here.
I’m shattered and aching! I spent the past 3 evenings in Crowley’s Rock Bar sketching performers at Swansea Fringe 2022 – 30 drawings in all, a lot of work. Drawing drummers is a bit mad – they move so fast and so hard. The way the stage is laid out, most of the drummers were almost out of sight at the back, but these two bands put them at the front. On the left, Altered Myths and on the right, Mines. Follow the links to find out more, they’re both awesome ….
Just back from seeing a whole lot of bands. I’m one of the Swansea Fringe official sketchers and here’s one from last night at Crowley’s Rock Bar, a really talented rock duo called Rainyday Rainbows. Awesome. Now it’s time for bed …..
Husb has made a – very – short video of a mixed media piece I did a while back, combining transfer print and drawing. In it I talk about the method I used. And all in one minute!
The drawing is based on one I did in my sketchbook – I’m always scribbling people – and the transfer print is from an original photograph I took of some derelict building in the Hafod area of the city.
Another little quick scribble from my sketchbook from the other evening when I went to see my young nephew perform with his fellow students on his music course. It’s not easy drawing people on stage, they tend to move around a lot, except for bass players 😀 I was drawing in the dark, couldn’t see the paper much, but that’s such good practice. The young musicians were great, some real talent there.
I had a chance to scribble some young musicians last week, at the college where my great nephew is studying music. It was very dark in the audience but it’s good practice to draw in darkness, not being able to rely on looking at your paper.
Husb and I went to a friend’s birthday recently and there were lots of kids running around having a great time with balloons. No fancy gadgets or electronics or expensive toys, just ordinary balloons. This little one has such skinny legs, like a bambi.
I went to our local college the other evening, to see my young nephew perform in his first gig. It was an assessment really, but friends and relatives were welcome to come along. It was a good chance to scribble people playing musical instruments, which I find quite hard. This guitarist was sitting down so I had a better chance of studying what he was doing.
It’s #StandingStoneSunday again on social media and here’s one in Swansea, in a suburb called Bonymaen. You can read more about it here. I drew it on my adventures with pre-historian Dewi Bowen and filmmaker Melvyn Williams a few years back, in the days before the Covid lockdown. All the megaliths on our travels are connected to the tale, Y Twrch Trwyth (The Boar Hunt) in The Mabinogion, the Welsh book of myth and legend.
It’s Saturday #Caturday again and here are some kitty drawings from my sketchbook archives. Sparta Puss was dozing on top of the boiler in the kitchen in front of the window. It’s Spring and the amelanchier tree in the background is blooming and the washing is being dried with solar power.
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