I’m walking and sketching around the Waun Wen area of the city at the moment, as part of the Home & Hinterland project across 3 areas in Wales. There are little streets of late 19th and early 20th century terraced housing snaking across the hillside and many of them have higgledy piggledy stone walls aroundContinue reading “Higgledy Piggledy Hills And Stones”
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Pontyglasdwr – Bridge On The Blue Water
Here’s another of my tiny quick sketches, en plein air, in the Waun Wen area of the city. It’s not big geographically, but it’s all higgledy piggledy, with little streets twisting up and down the hills that it’s built on. The place names are great. This is looking down Pontyglasdwr Street, the Bridge On TheContinue reading “Pontyglasdwr – Bridge On The Blue Water”
The Falling Down Tree
I’m working on a commission at the moment, in the Waun Wen area of the city. It’s part of a larger creative project called “Home and Hinterland” that covers Swansea, Bangor and Aberystwyth. More to come on this over the next couple of months. One of the things I’m doing is going out for anContinue reading “The Falling Down Tree”
Wobbly Bits And The Drangway
Here’s a quick scribbly sketch from one of my wanderings around Waun Wen and this little bit of street has a dark, narrow drangway going off to the left and a very wobbly set of railings, bashed by a car, facing me in the middle of the sketch. A drangway is dialect from the SouthContinue reading “Wobbly Bits And The Drangway”
Strangeness On A Window
I’ve been doing a lot of sketching en plein air in the streets in the Waun Wen part of the city recently, and it’s surprising what you see when you stop and look. Really look, like you have to when you’re drawing. Here are two gnomes on top of a bay window in a littleContinue reading “Strangeness On A Window”
The Scribbled Figure
I tried out a different approach to life drawing the other evening, at Swansea Print Workshop. I’m working into a large A2 size brown paper sketchbook with soft Rembrandt pastels. My drawings are usually quite representational but this time I loosened up and had a scribble. It made me look at the model in aContinue reading “The Scribbled Figure”
A Face In The Dark
This is the last of my sketches from the Rap gig at The Bunkhouse last week. Drawing in the dark is doubly difficult because it’s hard to see the paper and the marks I’m making and it’s also hard to see the subject. I used the continuous line technique for most of this, it madeContinue reading “A Face In The Dark”
Some Heads
Here are some heads. There we go. Scribbled at random. A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of the antique taxidermy collection at Swansea Museum. I have given these vintage artifacts a modern twist by combining them with images of rubbish – oldContinue reading “Some Heads”
Dinosaurs In Platform Boots
Here’s another sketch from one of the local music bars. There’s a long history of music in Swansea and it seems to come and go in waves. When I was young – and dinosaurs roamed the earth (in platform boots) – there were LOADS of live music venues. Practically every night of the week. ThenContinue reading “Dinosaurs In Platform Boots”
From One Hill To Another
I’m going to be working in the Waun Wen area of the city for the next few months and I’ve booked the lovely community centre twice a week, as a base in the locality and as an occasional artist studio. Today was rainy but I managed to get in a drawing between showers. Here’s theContinue reading “From One Hill To Another”
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