Swansea Print Workshop is shutting down for a couple of months for some badly-needed renovations and we’re all pulling together to get things packed and stored before the building work starts. I did a deep clean on some of the rollers (brayers) the other day. I enjoyed it. Does that make me sound like IContinue reading “A Deep Clean”
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#Caturday Archives: 60
It’s back to January 2018 for this week’s #Caturday sketchbook archive, an ink drawing of our Little Ming, the one-eyed fluffy tortoiseshell. She’s in her favourite place, on top of the boiler in the window next to the kettle. Plenty of sources of warmth for her. I have an exhibition, “Carved Heads And Other Creatures”,Continue reading “#Caturday Archives: 60”
Sketchbook Archives: 69
February 2017 and I’m still in the drawing-portraits-on-brown-paper phase. I used black, brown and sanguine conté crayons and graphite. I’m not sure why I stopped – I really like the effect. Maybe that’s why, maybe it was becoming too easy and I’m a glutton for punishment 🙂 I have an exhibition, “Carved Heads And OtherContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 69”
The Guitarist
Here’s a quick scribble at our local venue “Down By Here” (previously Elysium Bar). I can’t remember the band; I get so absorbed in sketching that I often forget to write down details like band names. I find it difficult to draw people with musical instruments as you have to deal with perspective and proportion notContinue reading “The Guitarist”
More Crazy Hair…
I went to a concert in the summer at Llangiwg Church and Y Pregethwr did an amazing performance in the Welsh language. He sings passages from the Book of Ecclesiastes in Cymraeg accompanied by a harmonium. He has wild hair so I sketched him. I have a new exhibition, “Carved Heads And Other Creatures”, partContinue reading “More Crazy Hair…”
Crazy Hair…
Sometimes I’m lucky enough to sit behind someone with fantastically crazy hair when I have a sketchbook on me. It’s so much fun to play with mark-making and different textures when I’m drawing hair like this. I used a Derwent graphite pencil – HB. I have a new exhibition, “Carved Heads And Other Creatures”, partContinue reading “Crazy Hair…”
Foot-tapping At The Gig
Here’s a quick scribble at our local venue “Down By Here” (previously Elysium Bar). I can’t remember the band but this guy was tapping his feet to the music in a snazzy shirt so I scribbled him. I have a new exhibition, “Carved Heads And Other Creatures”, part of MANIFEST at The Workers Gallery in Ynyshir. TheContinue reading “Foot-tapping At The Gig”
Experimenting With Lino: The Forest
I’m trying out something new, experimenting with lino, drawing on sketches I made a couple of years ago on a residency I did in rural Germany. I spent a week or so in a medieval village in a forest and the work I did there was completely different to anything I’ve done before…please click hereContinue reading “Experimenting With Lino: The Forest”
#Caturday Archives: 59
One from January 2018 for this week’s #Caturday Saturday, a sketch of Sparta Puss in a free Markers app on my (now old) Samsung Galaxy Note 8. I have a new exhibition, “Carved Heads And Other Creatures”, part of MANIFEST at The Workers Gallery in Ynyshir. The show runs until October 31st. Open Saturdays 10.00 – 17.00,Continue reading “#Caturday Archives: 59”
Drawing Walking: 2
I recently sketched a friend as he walked around the Rosehill Quarry labyrinth. I drew into a small (A6) Indigo sketchbook on very rough, heavyweight paper that I had previously prepared with white gesso and turquoise Liquitex acrylic ink. The surface is so rough that pens and pencils just didn’t cut it, so I usedContinue reading “Drawing Walking: 2”
