drawings

I'm sat in a beautiful place to work today - the view is magnificent 

we are in a cottage on top of a hill near Newtonmore in the middle of Scotland... there is lots of snow and its quite chilly.  The rest of the party are out doing sking, walking and I suspect coffee drinking and I'm happy to stay here enjoying the view getting on with my E learning (aagghh) but it is a good place to be .

Quick overview - continued history…..we started the course with lots of drawing - choosing to draw objects which were meaningful to ourselves... as I am a traveller with quite a lot of accumulated junk from across the world I found it quite easy to select a few bits and pieces which I liked.  I like organic objects most - real things i have picked up along the way, often one off finds,.

Loads of drawings later, 1 minute, 2 minute, blind drawings, continuous line which I love- etc.  – I changed objects regulary for variation, skulls, fossilised wood pepper grinders a very electic mix but fun to draw.

 

sheeps skulls continuous single line with detail

In the first few weeks we just used black and white.  I did drawings using different mediums - pencil, chunky graphite pencils, stick and ink. mono printing, diffusion dyes, sharpies and other different fine liners - which is what I always return to.  I am inspired by artists like Hannah Davies, Emily Forgot and other artists I found on Pinterest.

fossilised desert rose wood in stick and ink with fineliner detail

The line drawings got more confident and complex and started to develop into collage – my great love, layers of texture both pictorial and abstract.  I stuck to neutral colours and experimented with different kinds of papers and string.

NEXT......onto glorious colour........