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

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

Sketch a day 001

 Traditional Cornish Unit - A4 - Pen and Watercolour Wash

Well what a horrid 24hrs

After settling down to do my very first sketch for my challenge sketch a day yesterday, there was a blood curdling scream and the upshot of that was me racing towards A&E (ER if your American) with my 7yr old daughter Bethany who has broken her arm in two places jumping around on her friends tramoline. 6hrs later two very tired people arrived home 4am one in plaster and the other wanting to get plastered.....

I have hospital Thursday with her to see if they shall operate.

I did manage my first sketch though which is only a simple view near to our house, it was all I could muster considering the chaos

Sketch a day

While I am a budding artist and I am in my comfort zone with paint and canvas, drawing has to be my weakness. I find it extremely hard to make marks on paper that I am happy with so I void it like the plague. Most people think that all professional artists are acomplished in drawing and sketching but this is just not so. There are so many ways to cheat the drawing process and get on with the painting that its easy to fool the uninitiated with graphite paper, tracedown, camera lucida, photographs and the grid technique.

So.................

I am plucking up the courage to better my drawing and sketching skills and one way I have though about this is to embark on a sketch a day programme. Taking out my sketch book everyday, drawing or sketching something and then posting the result on here for all to see.......

I am chewing my finger nails in fear and anxiety just writing about doing this....

okay deep breaths............ wish me luck

Check back regular for my sketch a day and my thoughts on the process' involved, for good or for bad I am going to do this