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July daily drawings; part 2

Landscape painting! I get why people do it. A delightful way to spend time.

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July daily drawings; part 1

This month a passer by told me to big up myself.

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June daily drawings, part 2

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June daily drawings; part 1

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More heatwave leg drawings

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Have been wanting to paint more whilst also wanting to keep my equipment as unfussy and portable as possible. So, I've been making these little single-signature watercolour sketchbooks. The warhammer cardboard is simply what was available in the house.

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These sketchbooks have been coming around with me for almost a month now! I'm getting more comfortable painting in situations where its crowded and I don't have much time, which feels like a victory.

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Have been wanting to paint more whilst also wanting to keep my equipment as unfussy and portable as possible. So, I've been making these little single-signature watercolour sketchbooks. The warhammer cardboard is simply what was available in the house.

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Long time followers will note a recurring subject of mine - my own feet

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Extremely challenging life drawing session earlier this week. Glad I went and got a lot out of it.

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May daily drawings, part 2

Big changes in my sketchbooking life this May. I've been bringing a tiny set of watercolours everywhere with me. Though I'm not really much of a painter (yet!), I am enjoying having the means to easily make a record of the colours I'm seeing. My regular sketchbooks are absolutely not a good surface for watercolour but there's something quite freeing about using the wrong tools.

The weather has been really good where I am the past few weeks, so I've been using my lunchbreaks at work to sit outside and draw boats in the harbour. Which, by the way, is really difficult! I've not spent much time drawing boats before and I feel like my brain gets hot like a laptop with the effort of observation. Anyway,it's been a delightful way to spend time and I hope I'll be doing lots more of it. Ask me again in a year and perhaps I'll be able to draw boats on autopilot.

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May daily drawings, part 1

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Lovely lovely life drawing again with an excellent model

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Today I thought I'd have a go at some master copy colour studies, inspired by this video.

I used coloured pencils rather than paint, which is possibly not in the spirit of the exercise. It was a challenge to try and recreate oil paintings in a totally different medium - but I had so much fun making these that I did 3 in a row (the rare blessing of free time!).

You can tell I'm drawn to bright colours and high contrast, but what was most interesting was being forced to notice the areas of muted colour in each of these images. They help the saturated areas glow. If nothing else, this was worth doing for the time spent paying attention to each painting :)