Here is a quick sketch done during my daughters gymnastics class – in this I am continuing to test out the new paper I am using, just seeing if the paper will pill and how re-workable it is.
Wed-19-Jun-2019
Gymnastics
992 – Waiting turn
Here is another of my “watching my daughter at gymnastics” sketches. Just for a change she actually appears in this one, waiting her turn to a “back hip circle” on the uneven bars. Just a simple doodle – I liked the angles and shapes the bars and wires formed.
Wed-30-Jan-2019
966 – Gym bags and water bottles
Another indicator that I am well and truly back in the Philippines is taking my daughter to her gymnastics class. It seems like most of the kids at the class have the same bags – some sponsorship arrangement or something I think. Anyway that’s nice for me as the repetition presents a good opportunity for sketching. For a change I decided to leave a lot of white areas in this sketch, rather than overdoing the background as I often do.
Wed-9-Jan-2019
904 – Stripes at gym
I wasn’t going to draw at my daughters gymnastics class yesterday – or at least had no idea what to draw. Then I noticed all the strips of colour created by the mats and painted floor, so I tried something more abstract.
Wed-07-Nov-2018
877 – The chair is there for Gordon
The title of this might seem a bit odd, but as I was sketching the chair to the right I was thinking of my friend Gordon Rice who passed away several years ago. He was a friend of my parents as well but him and I used to visit art exhibitions in London and attended several summer painting classes together. I once showed him a sketch with a chair just like the one in this sketch, that was hanging up on a wall – and he marvelled at the interesting things I always find to draw. I miss him.
Wed-10-Oct-2018
869 – Poster girls
So today I was at my daughters gym class and of course had time to kill. Thinking I should draw some of the gymnasts for a change, I spotted some posters and decided to draw them (with all the other gym equipment around) … much easier because they don’t move around!
Wed-3-Oct-2018
863 – Blues at gym
After I’d sketched chairs at the coffee shop, I left because they keep the AC way too cold, and had a few moments at my daughters gym class…so I did this one very quickly while waiting. You might notice at the top right there is someone laying on the floor – he seemed to be engrossed in his mobile phone rather than doing some kind of gym exercise.
Wed-26-Sep-2018
839 – Three cars waiting in warm rain
It’s easy to see that I’m back to life in Manila when I am sketching at my daughters gym class. Last Saturday I was still sleepy with jet lag so I snoozed in the car while waiting for the class to finish. Then it poured with rain (nice warm rain compared to the UK) while I was drawing this.
Sat-1-Sep-2018
783 – Waiting for child
This was sketched yesterday while I waited at my daughters gym class. Thinking I would have a snooze in the car while I waited, I decided to sketch instead. I love my new Sailor Fude bent nib pen – it’s more like a brush than a pen! This sketch is also for the prompt of “family moments” for World Watercolor Month. Wed-4-Jul-2018