Both drawings watercolour, top one with a touch of watercolour pencil, in Seawhite of Brighton Sketchbook.
Showing posts with label Seawhite of Brighton 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seawhite of Brighton 2. Show all posts
03/09/2011
31/05/2011
Irises
My new scanner doesn't do the gutter between the two pages as clearly as the old scanner did... and here I've mismatched the sides slightly, but too lazy to re-scan...
Ink pen, brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook
30/05/2011
Motivation
I've not been motivated this spring and early summer, as I was last year, to draw out in the garden and in the landscape, record all the wonderful growth happening... here are two very quick sketches on a walk nearby. The lambs are still here, I don't want to think of what might await them.
Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
18/04/2011
Quickly in the garden
I've had a completely obsessive time in the garden: the work of gardening is at least 70 per cent about tidying up and clearing away... the growth rewards the slog. The moralisation of work? You bet! As this sketchbook nears completion, it gets fatter with the buckling of pages and the pages spring open, making it much harder to scan - hence the centre of these spreads are all blurred.
Indian ink wash and brush marker in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
13/04/2011
Self service
I hadn't used a plain old pencil for a long time - one always forgets how delicious it is to use this simplest and most rudimentary of marking tools!
Pencil and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
09/04/2011
01/04/2011
Browns
Cool weather, but definitely spring - I've been working like crazy in the garden lately - I mean the really heavy stuff of digging out established shrubs that died over the harsh winter, carrying compost, clearing away so many dead branches, pruning radically. I really don't know very much about gardening, but it's good exercise, and a great activity for seeing outcomes!
Brown and black indian ink (new paintbrushes) and brush markers in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
30/03/2011
Dogs in their spring coats
New scanner trial...
Pen, brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
03/02/2011
Penguins on the beach
I'm still engaged in the endless and boring task of scanning in drawings, which I suppose is a good thing, since I haven't had time to make any drawings over the past week or so.
Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
01/02/2011
31/01/2011
30/01/2011
Same view, different times
Well, same-ish view, Kommetjie beach from a particular bench on the boardwalk for the last three, and actually on the beach in the first spread. I've always loved the almost-repetition of the almost-the-same. It's the underlying minimalism of my not very minimalist work...
Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
Brush markers and watercolour in Windsor and Newton spiral-bound sketchbook.
29/01/2011
Chilling, I think they call it.
Still scanning sketchbooks from South Africa. The scanning of double page spreads of this square sketchbook involves scanning each page separately and then seaming them together on Photoshop - takes rather longer than the zippy face-down-scan-and-blog approach you can take with Moleskines or A4 spiral-bound pads that fit perfectly onto the scanner!
Brush markers (and in the last spread, a touch of watercolour) in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
28/01/2011
The walk that wasn't: Boxing Day in the heat.
Lion's Head from Table Mountain
Pencil, brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
26/01/2011
Christmas band
It was wonderful arriving in Kommetjie, near Cape Town, on Christmas day, and being welcomed by a street band. Fabulous bands performing in the streets on Christmas day constitute a traditional custom for the so-called Cape coloureds, descendents of Malay and other slave labourers imported into the Cape by Dutch settlers in the seventeenth century. Afrikaans speaking, they are a significant, if not predominant, population group in the Western Cape today. I included a photograph of the beautiful girls marching ahead of the band under the Maverick photograph here.
Brush markers and pencil crayon in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
Brush markers in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
Brush markers and collaged envelope in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
24/01/2011
Back home and South Africa, 25 December 2010
Back home after a long time away, and flailing in stuff that needs to be done, so the scanning of my sketchbook will be slow. These lemons from an exercise with my brother upon my arrival: I think his may have been his first drawing ever.
Pencil and brush marker in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook
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