I’ve gone back to March 2017 and a selection of sketches done randomly as I was out and about. A couple are in conventional sketchbooks but the rest are in a small sketchbook I made from odds and ends of paper lying around the place:- some old cyanotypes; a few discarded screenprints; some paper stainedContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 71”
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Angels Are…Byzantine: 5
This is the fourth Byzantine angel I’ve studied from art history and apart from doing some more inking with white Liquitex acrylic ink, I’ll leave the Byzantine angels and research other types of angels. I like doing research like this, by studying and copying I can start to understand more than a cursory glance inContinue reading “Angels Are…Byzantine: 5”
Ink Splash And Mountains
Husb and I spent a lovely few days in Trefriw in North Wales, revisiting our honeymoon hotel. Over the past few weeks I’ve been preparing sketchbooks with splashes and washes of Liquitex acrylic inks, so I took them with me to do a bit of sketching. I chose the lime green splash in my square-formatContinue reading “Ink Splash And Mountains”
Salty Flowers
Yesterday I posted my three sketchbooks that I’m preparing with a variety of Liquitex acrylic inks. I thought I’d show a close-up of one of the pages; it’s in the handmade sketchbook that a friend created for me. She used all sorts of vintage illustrations and sealed it with clear textured gesso. I painted theContinue reading “Salty Flowers”
Three Sketchbooks: One Ink: Vivid Lime Green
I’m preparing some of my sketchbooks with Liquitex ink because I fancy doing some sketching onto coloured backgrounds for a while. I have three very different sketchbooks. The hand-made one (beautifully made by a friend) prepared with clear textured gesso. The small very heavyweight Khadi one, prepared with smooth white gesso. And the large, square-formatContinue reading “Three Sketchbooks: One Ink: Vivid Lime Green”
Scribbling And Eccles Cakes
Husb and I love an Eccles Cake and there is no finer Eccles Cake, in my opinion, than those made by Gerrards Bakery, which has branches across North Wales and the Wirral – controversial I know! Husb and I went on a wild coach trip to Llandudno back in August and dropped into the localContinue reading “Scribbling And Eccles Cakes”
#Caturday Archives:54
Here’s a digital drawing of Sparta Puss from September 2017. I was experimenting with a Markers app on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8, getting used to it. I did a lot of digital drawings for a while, then I got bored with it and went back to analogue drawing.
#Caturday Archives: 53
Here’s the late, great one-eyed Little Ming for this week’s #Caturday sketchbook archive, she was a very hairy tiny tortoiseshell cat that we rescued from neglect. Poor thing nearly died and spent several nights in the vet’s hospital and had to have an eye removed because her “owner” had neglected her so much. She wasContinue reading “#Caturday Archives: 53”
#Caturday Archives: 52
I’ve been going through my old sketchbooks for #Caturdays for about a year now, here’s number 52 from July 2017, the late, great and very hairy Little Ming.
#Caturday Archives: 51
I’ve been going through my old sketchbooks for Caturdays for about a year now, here’s number 51 from February 2017. Just a couple of quick sketches in Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens into a tiny A7 size sketchbook.
