Went out for a first ride on our new electric bike. Wow how much easier is it going up hills! Stopped to do a very quick sketch of the entrance to a cemetery in nearby village. Pelikan M200 with Noodlers ink. Found the Noodlers doesn’t feather anywhere as much as de Atramentis in my Moleskine….
Tag: sketchbook
It’s been a while….
I haven’t posted on this site for quite a while. I found instagram a quicker and easier way to share my work. But I’m back and hope to post something fairly regularly. Pen and ink drawing while out on a bike ride
Olympics
First day of #olympic competition…all a bit boring! So spoldged around with some watercolours in sketchbook.
Twitter Header
New Year, new Twitter header. Thought I’d make my Twitter header all drawings – some buildings, a man, a bottle. After I put it together I realise there isn’t one watercolour – all done in either colour pencil or brushpens…I think it’s telling me something!
2016
Not the first sketch of the year, but one I quite like of the man taking it quietly after New Years Eve. Trying out the sketchbook paper in Midori Traveler’s Notebook. Have to say it is absolutely superb for pen, brush pens, colour pencil and watercolour. Lovely to work on.
Colour Pencils
Messing with colour pencils while watching the Rugby World Cup Final. Not convinced about them, but therapeutic to be colouring in! Much less stressful than watercolour but prefer the results of watercolour…..
Carbon pen
Poursac Church – platinum carbon pen and brush pens. The church is lovely and has a timber shingle tower. Trying to finish up my small Fabriano sketchbook.
Mixing pen, pencil & watercolour
Enjoyed mixing a bit of very soft pencil with the ink and watercolour.
Art before…..
breakfast…. lunch…. and dinner…..
Angouleme door
An ink sketch with Lamy Safari pen, done sitting in the car after Christmas lunch with friends. It was cold and my car was totally boxed in…so what else could I do but draw!
Noodlers Ahab fountain pen
Messing about with the Ahab fountain pen and getting used to it’s flexible nib. Needs quite a lot of pressure to get a really heavy line, which makes for slower drawing and makes me draw more abstractly which I really like. Somehow it forces me to be more loose with the lines and definitely…
Orange sweater watercolour
Was about to add colour to face, hair and background, then decided that the focus on orange is much more powerful. Very juicy splodgy watercolour in Seawhite sketchbook. Lines with Noodlers Ahab pen – love it for it’s line weight variability.
Tulip watercolour
Such beautiful tulips. I love them when they get to this stage of madness and uncontrolability. Noddlers Ahab pen with very splodgy watercolour.
Mary Poppins art bag
My soft leather yellow bag – deep enough for the most serious sketching kit to get lost in! It has a blue and white striped inner bag, which seems to swallow anything that goes into it – Mary Poppins comes to mind!
Noodlers Ahab
This tin is a dream to draw. Every time I draw it, I get different reflections. This was done with my Noodlers Ahab pen and ink. I’m really enjoying my Ahab and love the flexibility of the nib that gives me some line variation – makes for lively sketching.
Christmas colour pencil
I realise I haven’t even posted my Christmas drawings – so here are a few – only three months late!
Trusty suitcase
I seem to spend a lot of time with this suitcase at the moment. It’s travelled on Ryanair and Eurostar more than any suitcase has a right to! But it does it’s job and is fun to draw on the Stansted Express..
Instant sketching responses
It’s hard work trying to keep up to speed with a blog – and sadly this one has taken a back seat for a month or two while I work on my book. How can it take so long to get the words to say exactly what you mean?! That’s why drawing is probably more…
“Threads” sewing bag
…which I now use as a pencil case. The word “threads” is appliqued on the back..
Brush pens
I’ve been having some fun with brush pens. Trying to keep sketches loose and lively. Simple everyday objects in my small Fabriano Classic Artist’s Journal – white and cream ingres paper.
Chateau – ink sketch
Mostly drawn on location at La Rochefoucauld Chateau. Finished with brush pens at home when rain got too heavy to see! <
The harvest – colour pencil
Driving home from a “tasting” market in La Rochefoucauld. The maize looks dead, perfect for harvesting. The combine harvesters are out in force like prehistoric monsters eating it all up. And the grain silos are waiting to receive it all. Boiling hot day – weird for October….
The line revisited
These black and white “line” drawings are from several years ago – nice to revisit them and to see some of this old way of working remerging.
Coffee, watercolour sketch
Thanks to Jane Blundell for letting me know it’s International coffee day!
Broken barn window
Colour pencil and pen sketch in sketchbook
Fruit bowl – colour pencil drawing
Wobbly fruit bowl wedding present filled with fruit. Colour pencil in sketchbook.
Ink drawing – iron bird
Iron bird – made of scrap metal bits and pieces. He lives outside on our garden table – checking out the rather large round courgette!
Super-minimal travelling watercolour kit
Filled empty pans with new Daniel Smith watercolour paints. Stuck them into an old Rotring pen tin, along with a piece of sponge, which left space for my trusty Roberson no. 8 travel watercolour brush and a pencil. My perfect, lightweight, small travel watercolour kit. The brush I realise I’ve had for at least…
Sketch tagine pots
Mini tagine pots – a memory of Morocco. Pen and colour pencil in sketchbook
Capper Street sketch
Tiny (smaller than A5) pen sketch from a few years ago when I used to cycle around London stopping to sketch whenever I saw a building I liked.
