Our regular seller at the local market often gives us a few freebies (maybe things they have too many of or that are likely to go off soon) – this time it was some chillies! I wanted to get them looking brighter and shinier in my sketch …next time I’ll do better.
Sat-2-Aug-2025
There was too much detail needed to sketch this little box and I didn’t have the patience, so I fudged the pattern a bit.
Fri-1-Aug-2025
My habit is to just sketch what is in front of me, so here is what happened to be on our coffee table one evening. I read this series of books (the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini) years ago but my wife has been enjoying them recently. Paolini started writing the first book in the series (Eragon), when he was 15!
Thu-31-Jul-2025
I wasn’t sure what to sketch this particular evening, so I did the ironing first…then there was my subject, ready-made, in front of me! At the time I felt that I laboured this a bit…I should have sketched out the shape of the whole subject first. Oh well, there are always lessons to learn.
Mon-28-Jul-2025
Here is another evening sketch of a random household object – this time of some kitchen cleanser made by @HumanHeartNature. It’s nice effective stuff…if you can afford it.
Sun-27-Jul-2025
I did this in the evening I got home from a failed attempt at going to life drawing with #PensNBrushes. Turns out it was cancelled (like so much had been around the time, because of the endless rain). Luckily I wasn’t the only twit who showed up and waited outside the venue – there were about 5 of us who didn’t get a message about the cancellation…plus the sponsors! Kindly the guys there gave the 5 of us some give-aways…the two pens are in this pot.
Sat-26-Jul-2025
Here is an evening sketch of whatever I saw in front of me. I splashed on the watercolour first, then added some detail with my trusty Uni-ball Micro which draws on anything. There is supposed to be a banana and orange peel in the bowl, but the colours got a bit muddied.
Fri-25-Jul-2025