Twenty minute sketch, pencil crayons and felt pens on Ingres paper. I used a grey and brown pallette with a touch of blur from a yoga mat on the floor. Sitting on a small stool and a faux sheepskin rug.
Seated figure (back view)
Tag: Drawing
Life drawing class
Ten and fifteen minute sketches drawn at the Orme Art Group today. We book a life model occasionally and it’s good to practice drawing perspective and proportions. Pencil crayons and felt pens on Ingres paper.
Curled up
Drawing in biro of the cat curled up between us. Normally he’s beside us by now but he came in, ate and then went back out again.
In other news, another cat is coming in to eat! I heard my boy cat making purring noises and turned to look. A cat that is mostly black with a very thin white mark on its nose, had come in and was eating my cats food! It’s thin so I didn’t chase it out. Its the third time I’ve seen it. The other two times was outside. I’m not sure we need another cat!
I passed!
I have just received my marks and I have passed the MA in illustration!
Now for the anti- climax I guess. The world is still spinning, I still have my difficulties to deal with. Its funny how you build yourself up and worry, then you get your marks and they are still there. But it is an achievement at one stage I wasn’t sure I wanted to carry on. I got a decent mark too and some pointers on how I could have taken my research further. Will I ever write MA after my name? I don’t think so xx
Uhura
I love Star Trek and have been watching the original series. Suddenly last night, this face started to appear in a doodle. I thought it looked a bit like lieutenant Uhura, the communications officer on the USS Enterprise. I think it’s not a bad sketch.
Ka-ching!
Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Ka-ching. I saw it and thought about my preliminary result for my MA due at 4pm today. I decided to draw a slot machine, ike a morphological matrix we used on the course. Seeing how ideas can fit together. Let’s hope I’m lucky!
Colour theory?
Bright colours greet
But darker tones calm
Muting strong memories
A face seen by me
Gave me joy.
Sketching fast
Mixing and merging
Growing filaments
Glow metallically.
Digital fun.
A view of my mind….
Or yours?
Cards….
I was talking to someone today who might be able to help me get some cards published. She was really enthusiastic about my sketches so I’m going to take her up on her offer. I need to get my MA result tomorrow and then I will get the images over to her. I’m really on tenterhooks at the moment, I’m feeling stressed out and tired. But the show must go one!
Waiting
Two years of work. The results are out tomorrow. Ups and downs. Trying to produce work that will be good enough for a decent mark. It’s been a bit of a slog, but I’m glad I did it. Time to end, time to move on to something else. I was happy with my final major project, a children’s book. Juxtaposing black and white story pages and coloured abstracts. I hope that this will introduce children to art in a different way. I’d like to get the book published. I must find out how.
Europe
Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was Europe so I decided to draw Sam Ryder who came second in the Eurovision Song contest that happened this Saturday. What a fantastic night! Felt pen drawing.
Mallaband-Brown 