I’ve been on holiday, visiting relatives in the North of England, a lovely break from the pandemic routine and the first time I’ve seen my family in about 18 months – too long but there we go. My littlest relative took me to see his special place in the local woods. He calls it GarlicvilleContinue reading “Little World In The Woods”
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Stone Sculptures At Maen Ceti
I did some sketching en plein air today at Cefn Bryn on the Gower Peninsula. The main attraction has always been Maen Ceti (Arthur’s Stone), but recently a nearby cairn has been getting more attention with people making stone tower sculptures on it. Husb decided to build one and I drew him. I used black,Continue reading “Stone Sculptures At Maen Ceti”
Mucking Around
I need to loosen up with paint. I’m happy to sit and doodle for ages with a pen or pencil into my sketchbook, without bothering what I end up with. But as soon as I get the paints out, I seize up. I pressurise myself to do something “proper”. The other thing I don’t doContinue reading “Mucking Around”
Scribbling And Song In The Old Quarry
Lockdown is easing and things are starting to happen. Husb and I went to Rosehill Quarry at tea time to listen to Swansea folk musician, Angharad Jenkins, perform her recent song about the Quarry. It was a lovely sunny and warm Spring afternoon and Angharad sang to a group of local people of all agesContinue reading “Scribbling And Song In The Old Quarry”
Zooming Tonight
Just finished the weekly family Zoom quiz. We’re almost out of lockdown but it’s still nice to meet up and we’re not all living in the same city anyway, so we wouldn’t see this much of each other in the ‘real’ world. Just a very quick scribble with a ballpoint pen over a double pageContinue reading “Zooming Tonight”
The Lifting-Lockdown-Excursion
Here’s another quick little sketch from my lifting-lockdown-excursion into the city centre earlier this week. It was nice doing these scribbles, it felt like getting back to normal. A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of the taxidermy collection at Swansea Museum. IContinue reading “The Lifting-Lockdown-Excursion”
Spic And Span
Here’s another quick little scribble I did in my sketchbook while I was wandering around the city centre the other day. There were orderly queues everywhere, luckily it was warm and sunny, and there was this council employee power washing chewing gum off the pavement, making it spic and span for the returning shoppers. AContinue reading “Spic And Span”
Figures In A Queue 2
Now that there are more people around I’m out and about a bit more sketching. It’s great that people are in queues at the moment because they’re not rushing around and that makes it easier for me to sketch them. It’s good practice. A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks I have some smallContinue reading “Figures In A Queue 2”
Rework Redraw
I do loads of sketches into sketchbooks but I rarely go back and work into them some more. I don’t know why, just something I’ve never thought of doing. So today I was flicking through my landscape Khadi sketchbook to see how many pages I have left and I realised that I had done mostlyContinue reading “Rework Redraw”
Figures In A Queue
I’m trying to do more street sketching en plein air now that lockdown is easing off. I used to do a lot of outdoor scribbling, but there have been so few people around over the past year. But now we have queues! So I’m going around drawing them. It’s good practice as I get aContinue reading “Figures In A Queue”
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