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Three Sketchbooks: One Ink: Turquoise Deep

I’m carrying on spreading Liquitex ink onto my three very different sketchbooks. The hand-made one prepared with clear textured gesso. The Khadi one, prepared with smooth white gesso. And the unprepared one made by Indigo. This time I used Turquoise Deep. The effects are so different across the three books. . I have a newContinue reading “Three Sketchbooks: One Ink: Turquoise Deep”

Three Sketchbooks: One Ink: Deep Violet

I have these three very different sketchbooks. The top one, made by a friend with all sorts of paper treasures, has been prepared with clear, textured gesso. The middle one, a thick hand-made Khadi paper, has been prepared with a smooth white gesso. And the one at the bottom, a smooth paper made by Indigo,Continue reading “Three Sketchbooks: One Ink: Deep Violet”

#Caturday Archives: 55

Here’s another little drawing of Sparta Puss from September 2017. I did a lot of sketching with a Markers app on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8 back then, until I got bored with it and went back to analogue. I haven’t been tempted to return to digital drawing, I like the feel of drawing materialsContinue reading “#Caturday Archives: 55”

#Caturday Archives:54

Here’s a digital drawing of Sparta Puss from September 2017. I was experimenting with a Markers app on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8, getting used to it. I did a lot of digital drawings for a while, then I got bored with it and went back to analogue drawing.

#Caturday Archives: 53

Here’s the late, great one-eyed Little Ming for this week’s #Caturday sketchbook archive, she was a very hairy tiny tortoiseshell cat that we rescued from neglect. Poor thing nearly died and spent several nights in the vet’s hospital and had to have an eye removed because her “owner” had neglected her so much. She wasContinue reading “#Caturday Archives: 53”

#Caturday Archives: 51

I’ve been going through my old sketchbooks for Caturdays for about a year now, here’s number 51 from February 2017. Just a couple of quick sketches in Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens into a tiny A7 size sketchbook.

#Caturday Archives: 50

Can you believe it’s come round again! It’s #Caturday Saturday and here we are back in December 2016 in North Cyprus. This is one of the semi-feral cats living in our hotel garden. They were very well fed by both guests and staff and mostly quite tame.

#Caturday Archives: 49

Can you believe it’s come round again! It’s #Caturday Saturday and here’s Sparta Puss back in September 2016, “helping” me when I was sketching Husb. She likes to “help” a lot, particularly in the garden. I plant things, she pulls them back up. And clean laundry too, needs helping by being lolled upon while I’mContinue reading “#Caturday Archives: 49”

#Caturday Archives: 48

It’s #Caturday Saturday again and here’s another cat sketch from my sketchbook archives, May 2016. Sparta Puss was moving around a lot so I only managed to draw her head. She was about 7 years old here, and always quite the tyrant. I have three linocut prints in the Miniprint Cymru Wales exhibition in Mostyn inContinue reading “#Caturday Archives: 48”