Tag: sketching
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Chonky Marker
I was searching this blog to try and find a reference to when I finished my last A4 sketchbook so I could date the spine, because I neither dated the last page, nor dated the spine at the time. I eventually located the post, but on the way I got a kind of tour of…
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Complex Horse and Cloth Hare Head
The last thing I did today was sketch this horse in my sketchbook. It’s a lovely, challenging reference that I’ve come back to a few times. It’s very good for the practise of reducing complex things to simple shapes. Reducing complex things to simple shapes was also the theme of one of the other projects…
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Painting Elphin
Sketchbook painting using one of my photos of Elphin the taxidermy badger that I took at the wee sketching group event a few weeks ago. I’m playing with colour, and using turquoise as the almost mother colour because, like the badger, I am a creature of habit. I was using one of my gel plates…
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Wet Hare
Most of today’s output was canvas prep and backgrounds, but I decided at the last minute to use the small canvas board I was using yesterday for testing ideas, and stick a hare on it. I say stick a hare on it, I sketched it on and then dislodged most of it off with the…
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Pyrrole Orange Hare
I have been trying to fall in love with this sketchbook but it just is not the same as either of the two cheap as chips unbranded ones I had in my stash that I filled and miss. It is not always the case that the better paper is the better paper, sometimes the cheap…
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Charcoal and Texture
I don’t know why I don’t use charcoal more often, because I love using it. It’s especially yummy on my yummy textured piece. I’m using a selfie that I have used before as a reference for this one, and I am leaving it here for the day so I can walk in first thing and…
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Drawing A Badger
I did not make art in my studio today. The shock. The horror. Instead we went along to Silverburn Park for a drawing class organised for Scottish Badger Week. We got there an hour early so we could find a quiet spot and do some field sketching, which you will probably know I really need…
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Sketch and Image Transfer
This was a fun sketch from a lovely reference. I used one of my new Blackwing 602 pencils, which I am developing a crush on, and my chunky Pitt Graphite Crayon, and a tortillon for blending. Later on I was musing about things, in particular revisiting thoughts about using my own photographs either as gel…
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Sketching Therapy
Today’s twenty minute sketch is a mood. Til the morn, Suzanne 437/500
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Contrast
That feeling when a sketchbook is so close to finished, and it’s stappit fu o character. Twenty minute sketches, graphite on 9×12 sketchbook. Til the morn, Suzanne 423/500
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Mood
Sketchbook practise twenty minutes portrait. More chat tomorrow. Til the morn Suzanne 420/500
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