Teatime sketches

[Terri]

Love these!

 

[Triduana]

Thanks Terri

 

[Artyczar]

Wonderful Kay!

 

[Scamall]

Your initial tree sketches look very Van Gogh-ish! Your quickness is very evocative!

 

[JStarr]

The fence is spectacular

 

[Triduana]

Thank you for looking and commenting.

I will hopfully be able to add to this thread again soon.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Very nice sketches. Sketching from life is so good for our eyes and motor rhythm. Helps me in painting. I'm smiling.

 

[Triduana]

Thanks Jo. I love sketching from life; I'm really trying to build up a habit!

 

[Hausamann]

Great samples of your work. Thanks for sharing.

I like to do ball point sketches too, mainly for the same reasons as you. However, long ago my pencil work didn't seem to improve so I switched to ball point. Did so for about four months. I soon learnt that ball point doesn't have to be just for sketching but also for fine work too. It is a new way of drawing. The ink builds up around the ball and constantly needs wiping. Finer hand motor skills (light, steady an swift) is needed. I used to buy a few pens and picked the least leaky one for fine work. I got so fine that I could always feel the ball role. After three months of fine work I went back to pencil - wow, what an improvement.

 

[Triduana]

Thank you, Hausamann. I agree, drawing with ball point is different to pencil, I think I actually concentrate more because I can't erase anything.

 

[Triduana]

Just a few from this week. Some sheets on a line ...

I tried an abstract version of a landscape. For context, there is a road junction, some workers' cabins, various little watercourses, and a question mark in the middle because I planted an orchid down there a few years ago and haven't seen it since:

I later stopped in the same place again and drew the same scene in the style of an illuminated letter. I may come back to this idea at some point:

 

[Donna T]

I always love seeing sheets or clothes on a line and these are so good, Kay. I like how you interpreted the landscape too - very creative and probably fun to do something different.

 

[Terri]

Another interesting set of sketches! Nice job with the sheets, I can feel the wind! Your landscape is intriguing - I'd love to see it, as well as the illuminated letter, fleshed out.

Good stuff!

 

[Jo Castillo]

Triduana, clever the way you did your items. Fun!! I love sheets dried on the line. Still do that. Applause..

 

[Triduana]

Thank you for the comments Donna, Terri and Jo. I will do a better version of these, it isn't often I do anything abstract.

 

[Enyaw]

Can feel the wind

 

[Triduana]

Thanks for looking in Wayne

 

[CaliAnn]

Great sketches Kay - love the one with the sheets blowing in the wind

 

[Triduana]

Thank you Cali Ann. I really enjoyed doing that one!

 

[Artyczar]

Lovely work. Yes, the pen can be mightier than the pencil sometimes. I prefer the pen because you can't erase.