I was flicking through some sketchbooks and saw scribbles done during the daily Covid19 walks that Husb and I did back in 2020. Honestly, we haven’t been as fit since. The little café had opened in Cwmdonkin Park (loved by Dylan Thomas) and people were queueing masked and two metres apart in the sunshine toContinue reading “Covid Queueing.”
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Playing With Drawings #5
I’m playing around with Adobe Photoshop and some of the charcoal drawings I did back in the early days of lockdown in 2020, when we just had an hour a day out of our houses. Back then, the drawings looked quite grim to me, in stark black and white on heavy textured Khadi paper, whichContinue reading “Playing With Drawings #5”
A Slow Sketch
A Slow Sketch. I’m sketching from some photos I did on one of our local walks the other day. It’s a different kind of sketching, normally I sketch from life but that has to be done really quickly. Sketching from photos gives me the luxury of analysing what’s there, comparing proportions, looking at perspectives andContinue reading “A Slow Sketch”
Sketching, Masking And An Explosive Pudding
Back to basics Back to basics today with a little bit of sketching. I’m going to try and do a good few of these over the coming week. I’ve been neglecting my sketchbook work for a while, which is really slack of me. Sketching is good practice and I need to take it more seriously.Continue reading “Sketching, Masking And An Explosive Pudding”
Queueing In The Park
It was a gorgeous day so Husb and I went walking with a nephew in our ‘bubble’ to Cwmdonkin Park where the little café was open for the first time in many months, serving takeaways. Husb joined the queue while nephew and I sat on a park bench, soaking up the Spring sunshine which wasContinue reading “Queueing In The Park”
Déja Vu Drawing
Back at the start of Lockdown number 1 – remember that, in March 2000 – I started drawing on my daily government sanctioned exercise walks, using willow charcoal into a Khadi handmade paper sketchbook that a friend had sent me for Xmas. My dear friend sent me another this Xmas and Lockdown number 3 startedContinue reading “Déja Vu Drawing”
Quick, Short And Angry
I was in a really foul mood this evening, caught the bad side of Twitter and was raging. So Husb dragged me out for a long, fast walk. We ended up in Cwmdonkin Park which has been one of my favourite places for drawing en plein air during the pandemic. I was still in aContinue reading “Quick, Short And Angry”
Baking And Sketching
Another evening walk, another sketch in Cwmdonkin Park. There are plenty of trees so I’m in no danger of running out of subjects any time soon. There are lots more people in the park now that lockdown is easing. Earlier, I made bread. And pizza, but that got eaten before I could take aContinue reading “Baking And Sketching”
Another Yew On Ethical Paper
Another lockdown walk this evening and another charcoal drawing of a grand old yew tree in Cwmdonkin Park. There are loads of yews there, gnarled, ridged, wrinkled. Some of them have branches that have grown back into the main trunk of the tree, other branches wrap round the main trunk like they were ivy. I’mContinue reading “Another Yew On Ethical Paper”
The Old Yew And Rhubarb Crumble
Husb and I are still following our lockdown exercise routine most days, even though the restrictions are much more easy going now. It’s a good system that’s kept us going for the past four months so we might as well keep it up. I stopped to do a charcoal sketch into my Khadi sketchbook ofContinue reading “The Old Yew And Rhubarb Crumble”
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