WatercolourPainting

103-3089-93 – Pair of kings

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10 mins

Here are the sketches I did at the @KyusiSundaySketchers #LifeDrawing session. The pace of drawing was a bit more relaxed that in other life drawing sessions I have attended – we had 10 and 15 minutes for each pose. I used my #Derwent #WatercolourPencils for the line-work and then added some watercolour washes.

15 mins

We also had a challenge to do a non-dominant hand sketch and mine (the third one in this post) was one of the two that was picked out by the models – so I get a 50% discount on the next session!

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Sun-27-Apr-2025

100-3013-7 – Life drawing session

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Milen Garcia

Here are the sketches I did with the #SilawArtistCollective at the end of February. This session was in memory of Arnel Borja (a fellow artist), who sadly passed away in January. The models name was Milen Garcia and the event took place at Kapitolyo Art Space in Pasig. Each pose was about 20 minutes with some time added – though for the third pose I managed two sketches from different angles and then later added some doodles of the artists at work.

Model with artists

I used #Derwent watercolour pencils to start off, then added ink and watercolour. I think I was happiest with the last one, though as usual I struggled to draw her hand!

Reclining
Reclining with artists
Sitting

Fri-28-Feb-2025

96-2902 – Allyza

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Here is my first sketch from the #LifeDrawing session with Eric David and the #SilawArtistCollective, in Eastwood, that I joined the other day. Each pose was about 15 minutes and I used ink, a UniBall Pen, #WatercolourPencils and #Watercolour paints. I was a bit late arriving so this first one was a bit rushed. The models name was Allyza (@liza_paxley). I’ll probably post a few of these quickly, one after the other, as I have a backlog of sketches to post!

Thu-21-Nov-2024

92-2802 – Scared by cows near Lantern Pike

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On Saturday 3 August day we took a train up to Stockport from Manchester to meet with a friend and then did a hike from Hayfield to Lantern Pike. This of course included a stop at the pub on the way and we ended up having an excellent simple dinner at “The Village Chippy” in Hayfield before heading back to Manchester. I started this sketch when we stopped for a rest (but didn’t finish, hence the delay in posting it)…there were some scary looking cows in the field behind us (actually bulls I think), with huge horns.

Sat-3-Aug-2024

92-2806-7 – Manchester to Slaithwaite and Huddersfield Narrow

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These sketches were done on our day out to visit where our daughter works, along the Huddersfield Narrow canal. The first sketch was done in the train on the way and the second where we stopped for lunch at Lock No.29 E. The Huddersfield Narrow scales the Pennines and has very narrow locks. We walked as far as the Standedge Tunnel which is the longest, deepest and highest canal tunnel in the country.

Tue-6-Aug-2024

92-2804-5 – Heaton Park

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On Monday 5th August we visited Heaton Park – taking the tram out of Manchester. I did two sketches there – the first when we sat down for a coffee and lunch at the Lakeside Cafe (where the park was crowded with families and lots of push chairs…this sketch is barely finished and was done really quickly). The second was done when we stopped for rest in the animal centre area where there were some Highland Cattle (just about visible as blobs in my sketch).

Mon-5-Aug-2024

92-2800 – Five guys ice cream

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Here is the first sketch I did on the day after we arrived in Manchester. We had planned to go hot air ballooning early in the morning but it didn’t push through because of poor weather in York. Instead we just hung out at our daughters house, filled the rental car with a ‘big shop’ and went out for a little walk (in a little park near the university of Manchester where I sketched this woman snoozing) and a milk shake. My milk shake was banana and peanut butter flavour…so thick it was like ice cream.

Thu-1-Aug-2024