Everyday Sketches

Well, I thought this looked okay at the time, but now it looks like road kill. But she really was napping on her back. This is a good example of the wrong tool (Fude pen) for the subject matter (fluffy long-haired cat).

Again, influenced by Ian Sidaway, I attempted to paint these flowers with no pencil drawing first. Parts are successful, others not so much. Just for fun, this was done mainly with magenta and undersea green.

I have many tubes of paint and needed to become familiar with them. Following the model that Ian Sidaway showed in the Sketchbook Skool course, I made 2 x 5 in. swatches. What a great exercise in handling pigment, water, brush, etc. I have much to learn.

Made a sketch of the tools I used. including a water drop dispenser.

A small group of Glengarry Sketchers met at our favourite local hangout yesterday. I did a couple of warm-up sketches and then tackled the view from our table.

The delicious breakfast sandwich (more tasty than it looks here.) Colour pencil added at home (I must carry a few colour pencils in my sketch bag).

In the Sketch NOW book, the author recommends a Sailor Fude Nib pen. So I ordered one online (meanwhile I encountered the same pen recommendation from two other sketchers). It had to come from Japan, by sea, no tracking number. That was at the end of August. It finally arrived last week.

I’m still getting used to it and need to fill it with better ink, but it’s fun.

(The bowl of water on the wood stove helps provide some humidity.)

That’s the feeling a dreary, sunless November can bring on.

I was glad I had my wee sketchbook and pen with me recently when there was a long bit of downtime during an event with which I was helping out. Hence, a sketch of my favourite handbag.

Wish that’s what I had ordered.

Here’s the view from our table at Schnitzel’s in Cornwall.