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More Sketchbook Figures

Just a couple of people standing around at the gallery the other evening. I scribbled them with a ballpoint pen into my A5 leather-bound sketchbook.

It’s #StandingStoneSunday on t’Internet today and here’s a view of the magnificent monument Pentre Ifan in Pembrokeshire. I drew it in ink and soft pastels onto a rough Khadi handmade paper. You can read more about my field trip here. This short film from Cadw Wales shows how Pentre Ifan probably looked like when itContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday 22”

#Caturday – Black and White.

It’s #Caturday / Saturday again and here’s the little fluffy tyrant, Sparta Puss, photographed, scanned, uploaded into Adobe Photoshop and put through the Threshold adjustment to turn her into a stark black and white image. There’s a reason I was doing this – more to come on that …..

Scribbling At An Exhibition.

Husb and I went to the opening of an exhibition of glorious collaborative prints by Welsh artist Sarah Hopkins and Pakistani artist Muhammad Atif Khan at Studio Griffith in the Dynefor campus at University of Wales Trinity Saint Davids, SA1 3EU. And that’s a pretty big opening sentence! The show is called Diptych and runsContinue reading “Scribbling At An Exhibition.”

Teaching By Faking!

I work part-time for a national charity, teaching art to adults. I love it, it brings me such joy. One of the techniques I use occasionally in my painting class is copying great paintings, encouraging my students to understand how the great artists worked and how they achieved their effects. This latest one (it’s myContinue reading “Teaching By Faking!”

The 9 to 90 Art Community.

Here’s another sketch I did at GS Artists last week, at one of the Friday art clubs organised by the indefatigable artist Jane Simpson for the 9 to 90 art community. People from all walks of life pop in to try out different art and craft techniques. If you’re in Swansea on Friday afternoons, comeContinue reading “The 9 to 90 Art Community.”

Emerging ….

I started this painting a while back, from a photograph of two grown-up siblings on the beach back in the summer with a driftwood fire. It’s taken lots of layers of paint, doing a bit of work and then returning to it, again and again, the siblings emerging more and more with each layer ofContinue reading “Emerging ….”

Mari’s First Outing.

Husb and I have been making a Mari Lwyd from a flat pack kit for a while now. Quite a while, we began it during the first Covid lockdown!!! The past couple of weeks I’ve been down at Swansea Print Workshop printing some of the costume with one of my Mari Lwyd lino blocks andContinue reading “Mari’s First Outing.”

#StandingStoneSunday 21

It’s #StandingStoneSunday again and here’s one of my favourites, Maen Llia, a huge megalith near Ystradfellte in the Brecon Beacons National Park. Legend has it that the stone sometimes moves to the nearby River Mellte to drink …. I did this when I was travelling across South Wales with pre-historian Dewi Bowen and filmmaker MelvynContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday 21”

#Caturday – Another Filter.

It’s #Caturday / Saturday again and here’s a photo of a much younger Sparta Puss that I’ve put through Adobe Photoshop’s Palette Knife filter. She’s always been a cutie.