I shared a few thoughts about the artist as voyeur a couple of blogs back and looking through my sketchbooks, I realise that I spend a lot of time spying on people and drawing them. One of my favourite places is a first floor cafe in Waterstone;s bookshop which has a large window overlooking theContinue reading “Sitting Scribbling Spying”
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Rocking’ The Arts And Goodbye The Brunz!
Today, husb and I took down our last exhibition at The Brunswick after three and a half years of curating! It seems like just a few months ago that we were putting up our first one with Mike Mainwaring and Kara Seaman. I looked through the list of artists who have exhibited during that timeContinue reading “Rocking’ The Arts And Goodbye The Brunz!”
It’s Saturday – Here’s A Kitteh!
It’s Saturday evening and husb and I have a dreaded lurgi. Nothing serious, just one of those nasty bugs that make you feel achey and miserable. I spent most of the day at the Print Workshop, proof printing a couple of blockprints I’m working on [I posted a bit about them a couple of daysContinue reading “It’s Saturday – Here’s A Kitteh!”
One Hand Can Dancing
I wandered round the Green Man festival near Crickhowell with my sketchbook a couple of years ago. It’s a great situation for drawing because most people are so engrossed in music or dancing that they don’t notice you and are perfectly natural. These two guys were dancing away for ages – a specific danceContinue reading “One Hand Can Dancing”
Spying Scribbling Cutting Printing
I often think of artists as voyeurs, spying on and recording what’s around us. We had a lovely sunny day in the middle of last week and I opened one of the big windows in my new studio and looked down at the pavement three floors below. Suddenly, someone walked past beneath me and IContinue reading “Spying Scribbling Cutting Printing”
The Model With The Dragon Kimono
Here’s a sketch I did quite a while ago in one of the weekly life drawing sessions at Swansea Print Workshop. The model is a retired biology teacher and very colourful character who has beautiful and unusual clothes and jewellery. She came to this session with a magnificent embroidered kimono with dragons all overContinue reading “The Model With The Dragon Kimono”
Snatched Sketch And Exercises In Anatomy
We went into the new studio over the weekend and completely re-arranged the space because I wasn’t comfortable working in it last week. Today was so much better. I finally settled back into some drawing after the Xmas break and the studio move. Husb came over at lunchtime and brought some meatball and melted cheeseContinue reading “Snatched Sketch And Exercises In Anatomy”
Tattoo Tattoo Tattoo
One of my favourite models at the life drawing group in the print workshop is a retired biology teacher who has had her body covered in tattoos representing the food chain. Lizards scramble across her body chasing ants and flies into carnivorous plants. She’s not easy to draw because it’s a balance between drawing herContinue reading “Tattoo Tattoo Tattoo”
A Page Of Pigeons
There’s a nice cafe in an old cinema that’s been converted to a Waterstones bookshop in the cuty centre. Sometimes I sit in the large Victorian bow window, drinking tea and wathcing what’s going on outside and sketching. When I first started, there was a Woolworth’s store opposite which had large signage that stuckContinue reading “A Page Of Pigeons”
One Head, Three Drawings.
I often do technical exercises for practice and during one life drawing session I tried out three techniques during the same pose. The drawing on the left was done in Faber Castell Pitt brushpen using my left hand [I’m righthanded]; the middle one in FCP pen size Small using my normal hand and the drawingContinue reading “One Head, Three Drawings.”
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