Here is a post-card sized sketch of people listening to the concert. It felt as though the stones were listening too.
Pen and ink in small Seawhite journal, about 20 mins.
Category: People
Pictures of people I know, strangers on trains, other people, invented people…
Suffolk sketches
Here is a view of the lighthouse at Southwold. While I was drawing it, standing on the path by the sea, a woman came up and told me I was very gifted. I said thank you. Her husband said he’d told her to say that, because she’d seen me on the way down, and not said anything. He said she should express her feelings.
He had a pit bull dog. Because his mother was pure Romany. I was not sure of the connection. He said this was Kensington-and-Chelsea-on-Sea. He said that people here told him “you don’t have a London accent”. That’s because he’s not from Kensington and Chelsea, but from a different part of London.
This is the picture:
Here’s a drawing from Southwold pier:
This is a sketch from a bird hide in Minsmere. The two ducks on the right are Shovellers.
This is the sunset at Walberswick:
It was misty. I drew the Church, St Andrews. There is a ruined part, from 1493, on the right. And a more modern 18th Century part on the left.
I drew the view up the river. Here it is in the mist.
Here it is in the dark.
We went home by train. I sketched the people waiting.
At the airport
At the gate at Chania airport, we eat cheese pies, and I do sketches of the other people.
Exercises – quick sketches
Here are some very quick pencil sketches.
It’s a challenge to try to make a drawing in 45 seconds – but somehow liberating. The artist has to loosen up and concentrate, both at the same time. As does the Model.
Toe Touch
Plank
Blocks
Stretch
Stretch
John studying Spanish
At Fisherman’s cottage, Kalami , Crete
Pencil sketch, 30min.
Two of us
Etching, made at East London Printmakers.
Platform 16, Paddington Station
Etching in Charbonnel Doux ink, on copper plate using aquatint.
Printed at East London Printmakers. Thank you to Oscar for the advice on aquatint.
Rugby Players
Woodcut is such a great medium. It’s satisfying to cut the wood with the sharp tools. The character of woodcut allows approximation, and fast working. There’s lots that’s not quite right about this image, but I am reluctant to mess around with the blocks. I feel that the woodcut has its own language and I let it be.
Two blocks, postcard size about 6inches by 4inches, printed with Schminke Aqua Liniprint ink using the ancient Albion Press at East London Printmakers.
After an original photograph in the Guardian newspaper 19 December 2015, by David Davies, under the headline:
“Carter’s precision thwarts Saints’ revenge bid”.
Northampton 9
Racing 92 9
The caption to the photograph reads:
“Racing’s Dan Carter attempts to flick a pass out of the back of his hand before Northampton’s Mike Hayward can drag the New Zealander to the ground”
Etching: End of the week
Soft and hard ground etching on copper plate, done at East London Printmakers. 6″x4″
Three Etchings
Three etchings made today at a course at East London Printmakers.
The ones of the men and the landscape are made with “soft ground”. The ‘Bread and wine’ was a line drawing etched using hard ground, and then the patterns went on in soft ground in two later dips.
Leader of the course: Ann Norfield
On 23rd Nov I added more soft ground into the top windows.
Jane Sketching 