Moved In

We have finally moved into our new home and the old tenants left it in such a state we have worked non-stop on cleaning and scrubbing and ripping up flooring.

Now we are on the decorating stage and finally unpacking some boxes.

My studio which is the cellar under the house is being used as storage while we square away the house proper.

I have done NO Art and its starting to get on my nerves now, but needs must. Life on hold, it will be worth it in the end. Hopefully start work on making the cellar into a usable studio for me and my wife.

As soon as I have some art to post you will be the first to know

Moving House

Many of my friends will know that a house move is on the cards, one with a purpose built art studio beneath it #bigsmiles

I am sat waiting patiently for the van......tap tap tap......... but it means that i have been quiet, sketches on hold, paintings on hold, driftwood on hold, life on hold

See you in a week roughly

Lee

Red Ball UK art project

Whilst enjoying the crisp sea air at The Barbican, Plymouth today, my wife and I were walking down the main cobbled stone street when we cam across an oddity, there squeezed between two "Elizabethan"?, buildings, was a giant Red Ball.

It turns out this ball is travelling the country as some sort of art project by Kurt Perschke and is titled, Kurt Perschke's RedBall UK

You can find out more about the project on its websites the UK site and the Artists Site click the pictures below, or follow them on twitter @RedBallUK

Sketch 6

Colour Study Composition Sketch 006 Oil Pastels

I did this sketch while working out a composition and wanted to lay down some colour as well so I decided to use oil pastels on paper

Drawing a Realistic Eye

Sketch a day 5

Just five minutes doodling with a new black marker that I bought for packing up the house to see if it has any qualities, it may come in useful but it saturates the paper

Daily Sketches 2, 3 and 4

Sketch 002

Sketch 003

Sketch 004

Pop Art Poppies

I took a lovely close up of a poppy in its natural surroundings sometime ago and i used this as a basis for creating a pop art poppy picture using a photo editing software.

Digital Art is something that appeals to me because I spend many hours on my laptop and it is something I can experiment with while doing my day to day activities

I cannot see it ever replacing my love of natural art though. However, my wife and children are buying me a digital art tablet for Fathers Day which is fast approaching. Yippeeeeeeeeeee

UKCPS

I've just signed up for membership to the society, seen as I have enrolled on a Coloured Pencil Certificate Course I thought that a membership would enhance my learning in this medium. I have always admired the beauty of coloured pencil paintings and hope that I can produce some great artwork that shows exactly how gorgeous this medium is

In other news I have just invested in a tin of Derwent Coloursoft 24 pencils and shall be doing some sketch work to see how the pencils produce for me and what effects, textures and colour blends I can get with them.

Bethany is back to normal today, armless, bored but back to her usual self. I just hope this means i can now knuckle down and continue with my schedule that has suffered since her accident.

I am moving in a few weeks time, no definite date yet but I cannot wait to get into my purpose built studio which comes with my new house.

I have some work to do

I am working on developing this picture into a painting in either oil or acrylic

Okay well its better to have a hurdle now at the beginning

Spent two nights in Hospital with Bethany so that they could reset her bones after A&E messed the setting of it up.

This means I have been unable to sketch or do pretty  much anything else, standby as I am not letting this get in the way.

Bethany is back to normal, how quick children bounce back