Another little scribble capturing someone reading while they’re having a cuppa at the Waterstones Bookshop café in Swansea. It used to be the old Carlton cinema and it’s a great place to sit, sip and sketch.
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Another Random Head In The Bookshop Café
It’s a great place to stop, sip and sketch, the Waterstones Bookshop café in Swansea. It used to be the old Carlton cinema and the café is on the first floor, where the circle was when it was a movie theatre. It’s rather grand, dating from 1914 with huge bowed windows, a glass dome andContinue reading “Another Random Head In The Bookshop Café”
A Random Head In The Bookshop Café
I like to sit and sketch in Waterstone’s café, it’s a lovely atmosphere, it’s a bookshop as well. People are often reading while they’re having a cuppa, so it’s much easier to sketch them than people at a gig.
The Last Of The Old Year
I went up to Elysium for New Year’s Eve with Husb and SIL and had a fab time. I did a bit of scribbling, of course, in pencil into my size A6 Indigo-bound sketchbook, the last of 2025.
At The Swansea Fringe: 5
I was one of the “Live” sketchers at this year’s Swansea Fringe, and here’s one of the musicians at Elysium on the first night, in a band called Whilbur. I used graphite onto a thick vintage paper (not watermarked), a water reservoir brush and Derwent Inktense blocks.
What A Lovely Day – Twice!
Today was brilliant. Today made me feel like all these years of plugging away at my arts practice is worthwhile. Today I won a prize at The Workers Gallery Open (in Ynyshir) and the GSA 9to90 Open (in Swansea). The Workers Gallery has awarded me a voucher for art materials and a gallery show towardsContinue reading “What A Lovely Day – Twice!”
At The Swansea Fringe: 4
When I start a sketching session, I usually do a few quick warm-up sketches, to get in the groove. Here are some from Thursday and Friday at Swansea Fringe, at Elysium. I generally do these on cheaper cartridge paper with graphite, and I don’t normally use colour on these. Their purpose is to get up toContinue reading “At The Swansea Fringe: 4”
At The Swansea Fringe: 3
I was one of the “Live” sketchers at this year’s Swansea Fringe, and here’s one of the musicians at Elysium on the first night, in a band called Whilbur. I used graphite onto a thick vintage paper (not watermarked), a water reservoir brush and Derwent Inktense blocks. That violin was REALLY HARD to draw.
At The Swansea Fringe: 2
“Live” sketching at this year’s Swansea Fringe, and here’s one of the Rainyday Rainbow musicians at Elysium on the first night. He looked a bit like a cartoon character in real life, I thought, so I drew him like that. I used graphite onto a thick vintage paper (not watermarked), a water reservoir brush and a DerwentContinue reading “At The Swansea Fringe: 2”
At The Swansea Fringe: 1
I did a lot of “live” sketching at this year’s Swansea Fringe, it’s the fourth year I’ve done it and I love it. I get to go to any venue I want, see any act I want and scribble them with official approval. It’s great. Here’s Tokomololo at Tŷ Tawe. I drew him in graphite ontoContinue reading “At The Swansea Fringe: 1”
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