Here is a lazing on the couch sketch (I must get out more) – a view of one of our many shelves and one of our many Aloe Vera plants – that just don’t seem to stop growing. I have heard that you can eat the jelly…but it doesn’t appeal! I wonder if there is anything else we can do with them?
Mon-23-November-2020
If I squint and look at this from a distance I am satisfied. Close up and I can see all the flaws. This is a china pot we’ve had laying around for ages – something we bought in Cambodia. My recollection is that they were “10 a penny” as they (used to) say.
Sun-22-Nov-2020
Last night I picked something simple to sketch – my old Winsor & Newton travelling sketching kit. I’ve substituted this for something that can take a lot more colours….who knows I might go back to using it one day.
Sat-Nov-21-2020
I can happily sketch the same view (from the couch) multiple times – each time I see if differently. Brown is one of my least favourite colours but somehow we have ended up living in a house with mostly brown furniture – apart from the door (and that’s a book on the table) in this picture everything is wooden, so that explains it.
Fri-Nov-20-2020
Last night I thought I’d just choose a simple object to sketch – but I struggled even with this (my painting and hatching partly covers up mistakes and corrections). Well, at least I put pen to paper.
Wed-18-Nov-2020
This little marble carving is of part of the Bayon temple at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. I was lucky enough to live in Cambodia and visited Angkor many times, often sketching these Buddha faces – happy memories!
Mon-16-Nov-2020
Here is a methodical kind of sketch, of one of our overloaded bookshelves – just repeating the same shapes over and over. One shelf has DVDs in folders (though I am beginning to think we will never look at them again because we just stream stuff these days) and the one below has my sketchbooks. You can see I have gone through phases of colours and landscape or portrait formats. The blue ones towards the right shows when I started to bind and make my own sketchbooks.
Sun-15-Nov-2020
Here is a scene I have drawn multiple times before – our coffee table and some fruit. Just keeping my eye in during the evening. I think I need to find a list of prompts to follow to get my creative juices working!
Sat-14-Nov-2020
Hunting around for something to sketch I uncovered some old “teach yourself Spanish” cassette tapes we have. When even CDs are old fashioned I image only people of a certain age would recognise a tape like this.
Fri-13-Nov-2020