I tried a sketch
Of this trombone
But halfway through
It was lifted
And played
Right in front of me.
A glorious rendition
Of the Sloop John B
With accompanying
Guitar, Accordion and Cornet.
So I sang along instead…
Bad trombone
Tag: Pencil drawing
One line drawing
Take a pencil a pen or a brush. Without looking at the paper, start drawing what you can see. Try and make one continuous line….
Try not to laugh out loud when you see the result!
An exercise I’ve got to do for college. This was a practice run.
Catello Argonese, island of Ischia, bay of Naples
Today we had a virtual sketch tour of the Catello Argonese with urban sketchers Stoke-on-Trent.
I didn’t wake up in time to do the mornings sketching, so I took a screenshot and worked from that.
It’s just a 6B pencil sketch. On cartridge paper in an A4 sketchbook. I enjoyed mooching round, trying to fit the shapes together. It’s a bit like a jigsaw puzzle.
Anyway I’m pleased with the result.
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1980’s drawing
Photo taken from my computer screen which explains the distortions and shadows. But it was a drawing I did in the 1980’s. I used derwent pencil colours to do the shading. I did a series of drawings that were included in an exhibition in Stafford or Lichfield. I don’t remember it’s so long ago.
I would like to go back to some of my old ideas. I’m going to try and find the pencils again. I don’t think they will have degraded over the years.
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Sea view
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside/estuary.
Lovely sunset, tried to capture the colours but because it was getting dark I couldn’t see the colours if the pencils and if I had put the light on I would not have been able to see the view….
I do like sketching instead of photography but in this case the coloured pencils did not do it justice…
Anyway it was another gorgeous day in the sunny UK. I have just read a short story by another blogger about the world drying up through man’s insatiable needs. I do wonder if this is further proof of global warming.
So much to mull over….
Lifedrawing
Tonight’s life drawing model was called Richard.
When I’m feeling out if sorts I like to go to life drawing. I can sit and draw without worrying whether the picture is saleable. I suppose I could frame up some of these but I don’t really want to.
I find nowadays that my eyesight isn’t as good so I look through my glasses at the model, then over the top of them to see my sketch, half the time my glasses are slipping down my nose, which probably looks comical.
I tend to use a small sketch pad but if I go for a4 or bigger I use the back of a chair to rest it on. I used to use a donkey at college…a long thin stool you sit astride with a rest that pulls up which you can lean your sketch pad or drawing board on. the advantage of these is you can be seated without having to mess about propping things on a second chair. If you use a large easle its generally easier to stand up, as the legs of the easle can get in your way if you sit. Drawing on a flat peice of paper means that when you lift it to the vertical the image stretches and ends up elongated, this does not look good when you are doing figure studies.
Anyway, going back to the class, I did 7 drawings tonight…they call me prolific!
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