Quick sketches

On the phone

Brunel Statue and random figures

Community Gardens

 
Not much in the way of outdoor sketching recently as the weather getting cooler.

More figure drawing

 

A couple of my sketches from a figure drawing session which took place alongside a mural painting event on the streets of Swindon.

3 minutes

5 minutes

5 minutes

Costume life drawing

5 minute pose

5 minute pose

10 minute pose

10 minute pose

I recently attended a sketching event organised by one of our local Urban Sketchers. It's quite a while since I have done any figure drawing and it took a fair few poses before I settled in.  I found the full length poses difficult to capture in the time frame, so decided to concentrate on the head and shoulders.

Drawing Attention - September issue

 The latest global Urban Sketchers e-zine:

https://urbansketchers.org/2025/09/01/drawing-attention-september-2025/?mc_cid=01c114770e&mc_eid=UNIQID

Recent Cotswold sketches

Allotments, South Cerney

The Courtyard, Slaughters Hotel, Lower Slaughter

 

Painswick

Textile

 

Painted and hand stitched on cotton sheeting
approx 17 x 17 cm (7" x 7")

Another slow-stitch project. I am not sure whether I will finish this piece with binding or frame it behind a mount.

Recent acrylic paintings

Roses in June - acrylic inks - 17 x 12 cm

Poppies - acrylic inks - 17 x 12 cm

 

Aside from using my sketchbooks and preparing foldbook samples for a recent workshop I led for our local art group, I have done very little painting of late.  However, I managed to finish a couple of small acrylics on paper for an exhibition earlier this month.  Still attempting to go bolder and looser - and a reminder to self to keep up the momentum!

A few sketches from recent months

All these sketches are from my current watercolour book (approximately 5" square), mostly using a Pilot G-tech-C4 water soluble brown pen, some with watercolour added.

A winter visit to the local museum - sketches 
from a display of canal-ware

A trio of Wiltshire scenes

A couple of sketches from a Devonshire trip

A sunny day at Cotswold Sculpture Park

Drawing Attention - June 2025 issue

 The latest Urban Sketchers e-magazine :

Log Cabin sampler

 

Continuing my sewing explorations, I made this small crazy log cabin sampler.  I used old cotton sheeting which had been randomly painted with inks and some old shirt material, then added embroidery.  The backing was a hand-me-down and luckily blended with the pinky reds of the painted fabric.  All hand sewn.

Floral scroll continued

A few more inches of the embroidered scroll.  Only about 4" to go.  I shall have to start thinking about the next sewing project to keep me busy in the evenings.

Embroidered scroll

 

Keeping busy on cold winter evenings.  I think I must have started this embroidery about the end of November/beginning of December.  I'm not sure whether it will remain as a scroll or I could display it as a wall hanging.  I have used a length of cotton sheeting, backed with batting.  Initially I included some appliquéd flowers from an old linen tablecloth and tried to completely fill in the background with various stitches. However, I didn't achieve the result I was hoping for, so changed to mainly using seed stitch between the motifs. There was no overall design plan, once I finish stitching one flower or plant, I search my sketchbooks for the next.

The fabric is 4" wide and so far I have completed 30" of the length, with another 12" to go.

Pocket fold book

 

A single sheet, fold book with 4 pockets, acrylic paint and 
lino print, with paper flower decoration.  Folded 

size approx 4" x 5.5" (from A3 sheet of paper)