Finally got to see The Hobbit at our local independent cinema, The Taliesin. I just had time to scribble this man and his hair before the lights went down, the glasses went on and I went back to my childhood. I read the Hobbit when I was about 10 and loved every word of it.Continue reading “A Quickie At The Cinema”
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Bath And Beyond
Another lovely day so we headed East over the border into England to visit friends and stopped awhile in Bradford-on-Avon, a bit beyond Bath. We’d often driven through and wanted to stop, because it’s ridiculously picturesque, so today we finally took a walk around. It’s very old and the buildings cling to the steep sidesContinue reading “Bath And Beyond”
Quickies In The Garage
I scribble anywhere, me. Had a slow puncture in my back tyre so I took the opportunity to scribble some men at work. They do their jobs really quickly in the garage so each scribble was just a few seconds. But it’s useful to sketch some positions I don’t normally see, like using the jackContinue reading “Quickies In The Garage”
Vivid Pink
I’ve been re-using some experimental work I’d been doing, that I wasn’t happy with. I’ve been taking the boards, prepared with rhodamine red and lemon yellow oil pigment, to different places. I took one to my weekly life-drawing session yesterday and drew this 30 minute pose in black and white conte crayon with a fewContinue reading “Vivid Pink”
Cake And Foreshortening
So this evening I took myself off to life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop, bearing an abundance of cakes for our tea break. How civilised is that? I did a couple of sketches in oil bars that I was quite pleased with, then we had this pose to finish up with after tea and cake.Continue reading “Cake And Foreshortening”
Crazy Woman In A Sandstorm
So who was the mad woman on the freezing cold beach in a gale force wind this evening, drawing in a sandstorm? This crazy woman here, that’s who. Honestly, the things I do for my art. It was blowing so hard that my piece of card, around A3 size, was waving about like Rolf Harris’Continue reading “Crazy Woman In A Sandstorm”
Artistic License In Buckets
It’s been a gorgeous bright, sunny day, although very cold, so Husb and I headed for the beach this evening for a spot of scribbling and fresh air. I re-used a board that was a failed experiment. It had some images in rhodamine red oil pigment overlaid with lemon yellow and I wasn’t happy withContinue reading “Artistic License In Buckets”
Tatts And Transparencies
I’m preparing a whole new set of photopolymer plate intaglios. I’ve chosen the sketches I want to make plates of, mostly from my sketchbooks and now I’m drawing them onto small (A6) transparencies. These two here are onto Mark Resist. It’s considerably cheaper than TruGrain and more stable than tracing parchment, especially with wet media.Continue reading “Tatts And Transparencies”
A Fractal Scribble
We were shopping at one of those drab out-of-town retail estates and I stopped for a quick scribble of two ugly metal sheds with a tree in between. It’s not easy to draw trees but I picked up a tip a while back. The branches grow according to fractal mathematics and that’s the key toContinue reading “A Fractal Scribble”
Oily Scribbling
I went out of my comfort zone again tonight at life drawing and used my new yellow ochre oil bar to lay a scribbled base on top of an A3 card I’d prepared with 2 coats of acrylic gesso. I’d normally work with very fine pens, doing lots of linear detail. I prefer oilbars toContinue reading “Oily Scribbling”
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