I spent a great afternoon decorating some little ceramic figures for a raku firing today. Local ceramicist Esther Ley opened her garden and studio and provided some tiny bisque-fired houses and small birds to be decorated with oxides and glazes. Once we’d finished decorating, the little clay objects were fired in a spectacular outdoor kiln,Continue reading “Raku Alchemy.”
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More Dancers At The Theatre
A few more sketches from the other evening of performances at Taliesin Arts Centre. It’s good to have access to bodies in motion, I usually draw people in cafes or audiences or work with life models. I worked very quickly with a continuous line, mostly.
The Dancer In The Theatre
Husb and I went to the theatre the other night for a private event which included performances by young people in the County Youth Dance Company. It was a rare opportunity to do some speed drawing with people moving constantly and pushing their bodies into poses I don’t normally see.
Sketchbook Scribbling
A blog post showing a head and shoulders sketch of male musician singing.
The Performance Poet
A quick sketch of a performance poet using a ballpoint pen into a sketchbook.
Another one from my sketchbook
A small, fast sketch of a person reading from a desk.
A Figure At Rest
Just a quick scribble in my sketchbook of someone sitting quietly – and still – having a rest.
Chubby Foxes.
Husb and I had a few days away, staying with friends on the South Coast – that’s East Sussex, not Barrybados LOL 😀 Their garden was visited several times a day by two of the chubbiest foxes I’ve ever seen. Big, fluffy and ginger, I thought they were odd-looking corgis when I saw them first.Continue reading “Chubby Foxes.”
Faces In A Theatre 1
Just that. Faces in a theatre. I scribbled them.
This is NOT PPE!
I’m finally getting to grips with the lino blocks of text I started back at the beginning of lockdown 2020. I’m making mask shapes out of cotton and printing them with the words and phrases I carved into lino, reflecting my feelings and observations over the period. But these are not masks. They are NOTContinue reading “This is NOT PPE!”
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