Showing posts with label pencil crayon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pencil crayon. Show all posts
10/01/2012
Please will someone tell me why
Turning the Japanese accordion sketchbook around, the first four pages opened out...
05/01/2012
04/01/2012
Sketchbook: Tokyo street fashion
In the name of individuality, there is (of course) great uniformity - the long hair, the little girl flounces, the over-the-knee socks, the dinky cutesy toys pegged onto bags and mobile phones... To follow the sketchbook, just click
in the tag/label 'Japanese sketchbook 1.'
19/08/2011
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.
11/11/2010
04/07/2010
Rambling Albertine on her way out
Pencil and pencil crayon in Moleskine sketchbook
Marker pens and brush in Moleskine sketchbook.
31/05/2010
Very quick again: a walk in the countryside
Pencil and pencil crayon in large sketchbook.
And because I can't capture the beauty of it... the blossom of the flowering chestnut tree (for Ea!)
29/05/2010
On the glass table
Brush marker and pencil crayon, with a touch of black ink pen in Moleskine sketchbook.
These four shells and the telephone were among the clutter on my glass desktop. I started the drawing using a black contour liner for the phone, and then decided that wasn't what I wanted to use after all, so it's a bit of a mish-mash.
16/05/2010
Ingredients for lunch
Pencil, water soluble pencil crayon and watercolour in Windsor and Newton sketchbook.
This paper is not meant to buckle with watercolour!
14/05/2010
Soldiers
Very early and very quick. Tidying the bathroom cupboard, I lined up all these soldiers. There are only two of these that I actually use (she said defensively).
13/05/2010
Lost and found, 2
Staedtler black contour liner and watercolour in big sketchbook.
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Brush markers and pencil crayon in big sketchbook.
More stuff I leave lying about the house.
07/05/2010
05/05/2010
Five minutes in the garden with a book
No, not the savage destruction of old books. Recycling. In a rush today.
04/05/2010
03/05/2010
02/05/2010
British Museum
Pencil and pencil crayon in Moleskine sketchbook.
Pencil, pencil crayon and brush marker in Moleskine sketchbook.
Spent a long time at the exhibition of Italian Renaissance drawings feeling both humbled and exalted. I've included the sort of page that I usually leave out of the blog: lots of notes that I may never look at again, or that may serve as aide memoires if I write something about the show, though I did indulge in the catalogue too.
01/05/2010
Another meal
Brush marker, pencil, pencil crayon and watercolour in Windsor and Newton sketchbook.
Don't ask. The letters took a while to do!
26/04/2010
New sketchbook, more cows
Ink pen and watercolour in Windsor and Newton sketchbook
I'll fess up, I drew these cows (and others that I really didn't like - my hand's a bit "out" today!) from some photographs I took while out on a walk a few days ago. Too much going on with herd and scared dog to stop and draw - except outside the fence, which I sometimes do! I think I've made the cow on the left look like a pig!
The sketchbook has quite a grey-blue cast which is a bit strange, and the paper has a different absorbency from the previous Windsor and Newton sketchbook - not quite sure if I like it. (Oh - I'm also experimenting with the size of uploads onto this blog, so this drawing is a bit smaller than earlier ones.)
Here's another, in pencil crayon, from a spot of gardening early this morning, about which I know as close to nothing as is possible, but learning with a bit of common sense and a few tips from others. And now back to the studio!
Pencil and pencil crayon in Windsor and Newton sketchbook
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