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A Speedy Head

Here’s another of my 30 minute portrait sketches, done recently during the 15 Hundred Lives exhibition, “Process” at Swansea Museum.  It’s been a great experience and lovely to work with the people who volunteered to sit in a very public place and be stared at by me and scribbled while passers-by look on. I’m aimingContinue reading “A Speedy Head”

Heads At The Museum

I did a second day drawing 30 minute portraits at Swansea Museum today. I am working on a potentially large body of drawings of Baby Boomers that I hope to develop into a major work in a year or so. A lot of people are volunteering to sit for me, there’s been a terrific responseContinue reading “Heads At The Museum”

A Distinguished Head

Here’s another of the 30 minute portrait drawings I did recently at Swansea Museum. Not easy getting a likeness and a reasonable drawing in such a short time and of course I can see everything that’s wrong with it! If I was doing a formal portrait then this would have been the first of severalContinue reading “A Distinguished Head”

Cabinet Of Curiosities

Here’s another of the 30 minute portrait drawings I did at Swansea Museum last Sunday. I have been asking people I know who are Baby Boomers to volunteer to sit for me as I want to build up a large collection of 30 minute portrait drawings over the next year or so in preparation forContinue reading “Cabinet Of Curiosities”

Thirty Minutes

Here’s another of the 30-minute portrait sketches I did yesterday during my drawing day at Swansea Museum. I used Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens into an A5 hardbacked spiral bound sketchbook. I would normally do a number of quick preliminary sketches so it’s quite a challenge to do a decent drawing that is also aContinue reading “Thirty Minutes”

The One Show And Me

  Back in the summer last year, I took part in a public ‘draw-in’ in St. David’s on the west coast of Wales. A dozen artists based in Goat Street gallery were filmed drawing or painting locals and holidaymakers who queued up the road and round the corner for a chance to have their portraitContinue reading “The One Show And Me”

Teenager

I did a quick scribble of Teenage Niece this evening. It had to be a quick scribble because she can’t sit still for long. It’s an interesting phase of development. Her face isn’t the scrunched up alien physique of a child but she still has a child-like roundness to her features. I used Faber CastellContinue reading “Teenager”

126 Portraits For The Telly

These are the 8 portrait drawings I did for an event in St. David’s a few days ago. BBC1’s ‘The One Show’ filmed over two days and will eventually edit all that footage into a couple of 4 minute items. I worked with Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens, sizes S, F, M and B intoContinue reading “126 Portraits For The Telly”

Taking The Plunge

I’m concentrating on drawing heads for the next couple of weeks. I need the practice so last night at the life drawing group, I focused on getting a likeness of the model. I drew with a Derwent sketching pencil size 4B into an A3 Daler Rowney sketchbook. Our model has a very distinctive face andContinue reading “Taking The Plunge”