Tag Archives: Swansea

#Caturday Archives: 21

Here’s a blast from the past for this week’s #Caturday Saturday, from 2011. Husb and I had two naughty torties, Bobbit and Ming. They hated each other but had to learn to live together for many years. I drew this just a few weeks before Bobbit died, of very old age. She was very poorlyContinue reading “#Caturday Archives: 21”

Writhing Strokes…

I am lucky to do quite a bit of teaching in Community Arts and I worked with a lovely group at Swansea’s GS Artists last week, teaching how to paint an imaginary landscape inspired by Vincent van Gogh. In two hours! 😀 We used canvas boards, acrylic paints and palette knives. This is a smallContinue reading “Writhing Strokes…”

Drawing In The Dark

Drawing at a performance usually means drawing in very restricted light. Sometimes it’s too dark to see my sketchbook, but often it means that the performers, especially at the smaller gig venues, are partially or wholly in poor light.

#Caturday

It’s #Caturday Saturday again and here’s my silhouette of Little Bill looking at a copy I did of van Gogh’s painting of his bedroom at Arles. Throughout the Covid lockdown, I spent my Friday lunchtimes on Facebook, joining in with the artist Ed Sumner, who ran the Cheese and Wine Paint Club. He did 72Continue reading “#Caturday”

And Another Gig Goer…

Honestly, you’d think I spent my entire life at gigs! Well, it’s my main source of socialising and entertainment, so I suppose I do. Here’s someone else enjoying the music.

Musicians In Hats.

I don’t half make things hard on myself. As well as having a liking for drawing musicians, who have the nerve to be always moving around, I also have a thing about drawing hats. So…musicians with hats. Not easy. Not easy at all. Fun though. This was at a gig a few nights ago byContinue reading “Musicians In Hats.”

Drawing at gigs is good. Plenty of opportunities to scribble people in the audience and on stage, in relation to the interiors or to their instruments. I find that drawing instruments is the hardest thing. Of course, musicians move around which makes sketching harder, but the instruments are usually constantly on the move too, changingContinue reading

Fleeting Seconds…

It’s often easier to sketch the audience at gigs because musicians tend to move around a lot (except bass players), so I usually have just fleeting seconds to capture the essence of a guitarist, singer or drummer.

An Interesting Crowd.

I did loads of sketches at the Elysium gig last week, it was an interesting crowd. This guy had a big, quite fancy leather jacket on and he was taking photos with and SLR camera so he was hunched over a lot. I really liked the pose.