Ok, Ok, I took a week off for the holiday, I know. It was very naughty of me.
But I have been working every day. So much so, that it has taken me over an hour to work out what I need to post and I can see it is likely to take a few days, lol
First, I have a fair bit of sketchbook work. I do try to sketch every day, or to work on sketches every day and I find that my sketchbook is important to me because
- it keeps me from getting too rusty with drawing - and this makes it easy when composing new work or designing new work
- it serves as a repository of visual ideas that I can come back to again and again when I need an idea
- it also becomes a record of what I am doing as well. A simple sketch can mean a thousand words - and you know you will forget that idea if you don't record it.
Enough preaching.
This first set of sketches is for a piece that I am currently working on which will be small thread paintings. Ocean, Mountains, ferns and orchids. These little sketches provide enough information for me to create my stitching canvases when I get to it.
This sketch and it's associated photo were one of my daily scribblings. The photo is from the creekside not far from my home.
This is also a daily sketch, but there is no photo, because it is only a few steps from the back door and is so familiar, I could probably draw it in my sleep.
This sketch is a close up of the centre portion of the photo. It is a perennial sweet pea which grows in our garden. Another daily exercise.
Also from the garden, a native iris flower.
The final sketch, of a nautilus, is an example of a memory technique. After studying a picture for a while, I turn the picture over and set about sketching and at present I allow myself three glances. Although this gives me sketching practice, it 8is not really about sketching, but about observing. Perhaps one day I will be able to do it with out looking at the picture after the first observation - but if I get better, then I'll be happy enough.
Mostly, I work in this sketchbook with lead and coloured pencil. With the exception of a watercolour pencil sketch now and then. I keep my other media for my artbooks, which I will show sometime later in the week.
Be creative every day
