baby-faces

Baby in my sketchbook and the sad girl is one of a series to raise funds for Tumaini. I think I need to do something to the nose and to the left eye.:(

Fiddlers' hands

I love hands! I love drawing hands and I've long wanted to draw musicians' hands.
A few sketches of fiddlers' hands. The problem is that I find violins so difficult to draw.... These are quickies done in my sketch book.
I intend to do a proper series....fiddlers, pianists, flautists, guitarists and so on.
Hands say so much about a person I find....

The shepherd

A sketch....just mucking around, cos I'm in the mood to draw. Participating in the Wet Canvas WDE this weekend, something I haven't done in so many many months. The photo wasn't very clear...that's my excuse for anything that's wrong with my sketch.
Graphite in my moleskine sketch book.

Hope

An art exhibition on the theme of HOPE was organised at Les Cotils Centre for today, along with a talk about Hope in Art and also a workshop run by Tim Steward, who paints very moving work.

I put in a piece for the exhibition, only a little piece, 20cm x 20cms..a little picture in graphite, a version of which I posted earlier on as a sketch. I have to say I like it very much, even though the resemblance to the original little girl is not that good. But the poise of the child really caught the idea of HOPE for me, in that the purity and innocence of children is a beacon in a broken world, and for me a ray of hope...

The talk and workshop was very interesting, and not at all what I was expecting. We were left to ourselves to do the art work, and I inevitably ended up with the standard Christian symbols, which left me frustrated. However, it was a very liberating experience, and I enjoyed myself very much.
Small painting done in my A3 Moleskine sketch book.

Faces as usual...

Still having fun with faces. Drew the first one whilst watching 'Children in Need' last night. Not a fantastic resemblance to the original, but on it's own, I like it!

Funny faces

The funnier the better! A few semi-blind contour... I love doing things like this, cos there's no need to be correct!

4 more face sketches

Some more flickr-faces. They're so good, cos they don't move!
All done in graphite in my moleskine sketch book. The aim is to do them again, from my sketch this time in monochromatic watercolour! Watch this space and see if I follow up on my aim! LOL
Good to be drawing again. I really miss it when I'm not drawing.

Two more facebook friends...actually real life friends for that matter!!!

I've missed these two so much...they've been away from here for too long but are soon going to be back!! Yeahhhh!

facebook friend faces

Facebook friends (from photos) and my two girlies from life!

Strange faces

Needed to get back into practice, so off I headed to Flickr and found some faces to draw. They're good cos they don't move!!! You'll never know of course whether the likeness is good! LOL
I love drawing funny faces!

Big draw day

Last weekend, JS arranged a Big Draw day which I attended. We did a still life, and it took me quite a while to get into the groove, but i eventually kind of got there and had a lovely time. First time sketching for a very long time...it's amazing how quickly you lose the skills if you don't practice regularly!

Jerbourg sketch

Went walking in the last of the summer sun... about 3 weeks ago. Not a terribly inspiring sketch.

It's been a long long time again!

Fisherman's cottage in La Roche Derrien, Brittany. (Left over sketch from the summer!)

Sillon de Talbert

Went out exploring with Wizzy yesterday. Can't walk too far, cos he's so fat and wheezy and old. So we went back to L'ile a Bois and mooched around. A kind lady in the only bar-epicerie which was almost a small as the salle de wc at home, gave Wizzy a bowl of water!!!

Fete du Chant de Marins Paimpol 2009 again

Fete du Chant de Marins Paimpol 2009

Three fab days, lots of noise, lots of sunshine and lots of fantastic music. Mind you by the day three I'd started to have enough....I think it's the age or something!!! LOL

Here are some sketches... a few done on site, and one or two done from photographs at home, re-living the memories.