Sitting on the settee the other evening, scribbling one of the corners in the room. I try to sketch every day, don’t always manage it, and sometimes I get bogged down in trying to find a “suitable” subject, when really it doesn’t matter. I should just draw what’s there in front of me. There’s alwaysContinue reading “Scribbling The Corner….”
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Lolling ….
Had a quick scribble when my young nephew called around the other day. He was lolling on the little settee and there was a nice bit of foreshortening going on, so I sketched him. The word “lolling” means to lounge and the Internet reckons it originates in late Middle English. But there’s also a WelshContinue reading “Lolling ….”
Three Heads In A Bookshop.
Not exactly a rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, but I like to pop into the cafe upstairs in the local Waterstones bookshop for a cuppa and a scribble from time to time. People there are usually absorbed in whatever book they’ve bought and it’s easier to draw them. I took a few seconds to sketch theseContinue reading “Three Heads In A Bookshop.”
#StandingStoneSunday 8
This week’s #StandingStoneSunday megalith is the Is-coed stone near Ferryside in Carmarthenshire. I was travelling around drawing Bronze Age and Neolithic monuments with filmmaker Melvyn Williams and pre-historian Dewi Bowen a while back, drawing the sites that will feature in Dewi’s upcoming book based on the tale of Y Twrch Trwyth in the Mabinogion.
#StandingStoneSunday 7
It’s #Standingstonesunday again and I’ve been looking through the painting / drawings I did of some of the ancient stone monuments of South Wales a while back. I was travelling around hunting the wild megaliths with filmmaker Melvyn Williams and pre-historian Dewi Bowen. We trekked up the mountain near Trecastle to visit the Nant Tarw stone circles and cairn. The BronzeContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday 7”
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”
Chilling With A Scribble.
Husb and I went for a stroll, it was a nice day, and we stopped for a coffee in Coast Cafe on the mouth of the river. I scribbled the guy silhouetted against the window and used the continuous line method to get the proportions right. Just a little bit of practice.
#StandingStoneSunday 6
It’s #Standingstonesunday again and I’ve been looking through the painting / drawings I did of some of the ancient stone monuments of South Wales a while back. This one is a few miles up the valley from Tafarn Y Garreg, where I scrambled across a stream strewn with slippery, slime-covered rocks and up a steep slopeContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday 6”
Like Chalk And Cheese.
Here are the last couple of sketches from the gig Husb and I were at last weekend, in Hippos. People have different ways of listening to music, these two were like chalk and cheese. The gigger on the left was very focused and concentrated on the music, the gigger on the right was going aContinue reading “Like Chalk And Cheese.”
A Head Again and Again.
I drew this page of heads at the Omnichron gig at Hippos the other night. The bass player kept moving so I quickly scribbled him from different angles, without getting enough time to do a detailed drawing.
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