Today’s sky

Posted on April 1, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Buildings, Drawing, Grey sky, Sketch, Sky, Staffordshire, Urban Sketchers, Usk Stoke-on-Trent, View2 Comments

The day the urban sketchers challenge was to draw the sky, it was grey and cloudy! Instead of swirling or feathery clouds we got a grey duvet closing in the light. At one second while I was drawing the sun shone through, but while I tried to catch the orange colour on the edges of the clouds the gap had closed and all was grey again! I tried to make the best of the view by drawing the outbuilding next door and a bit of vegetation (privet bush).

So hopefully a bit more sun will shine tomorrow.

Exercise

Posted on March 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Climbing, Drawing, Exercise, Fun, Humour, Sketching, Staffordshire, Stairs, Urban Sketchers, Usk Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

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Today’s challenge, draw an exercise you are doing to stay healthy. I coukd have added my feet at the top, but I was being realistic (in both the descriptive and actual) definitions of the word, I just drew the stairs. I guess this is a physical as well as artistic challenge.

Sitting on my bottom all day is not doing my health any good. Off to walk up and down ten times

Today’s drawings

Posted on March 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Brush pen, Challenge, Cyclamen, Drawing, Garden, Gardening, Life, Narcissi, Sketching, Social isolation, Stoke-on trent, Stray cat, Tete-a-tete, Usk Stoke-on-TrentLeave a comment

Those of you who follow my blog know I’ve been drawing my surroundings from the safety of my own home.

Today’s challenge was gardening. I chose to draw some pots and a flower bed in a sparkly amathyst colour brush pen. It includes cyclamen, tete-a-tete narcissi and foliage from geraniums and poppy plants. The sun was shining again today, but there was a bitterly cold wind, not helped by the neighbours behind us that had cut down two trees that had acted as a windbreak.

The second drawing is a quick sketch of the stray cat, Woody, who is doing fine sleeping in the shed and roaming the garden by day.

Thanks USK Stoke-on-Trent for the challenge x

Sketching breakfast

Posted on March 25, 2020 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Bacon, Cheese, Drawing, Food, Fun, Kitchen, Life, Oatcakes, Sketching, Urban Sketchers, Usk Stoke-on-Trent2 Comments

If you don’t eat meat, look away now….

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If you can’t see what it is, I drew bacon about to be grilled, so I could make bacon and cheese oatcakes.

Today’s USK S-O-T challenge was to draw ‘cooking’. Various pots and pans and foodstuffs have been drawn. It’s keeping me occupied and mentally active.

USK stands for Urban Sketchers, its a world wide movement of people who draw their environment. The rules are, draw from life, not a photo, include background, not just the subject on its own. There are others but I can’t remember them all…. Anyway, I wonder what tomorrows challenge will be. X

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Today’s sky

Exercise

Sketching breakfast