Two still lifes

the pebble replaced a little round tin that turned out to be problematic

still life with pencil

Tree drawing

Indian ink

Sheep skull again, again

Oil study using an old used canvas someone gave me – waste not, want not…

For drawings of the same subject, see earlier posts: Ink and stuff, Sheep skull again, and Landscape and bonescape

Dreaming of imperfect futures

When you wake up with a political cartoon in your head the only thing to do is draw it and move on:

Let’s not vote for this.

(I’m beginning to think I should rename this blog ‘angry artist’)

Litter

In case you can’t read the small print on this litter, it says:
Disclaimer: Seller accepts no responsibility for contents, which may differ from advertised offer.
Caution: Voting Tory will harm your health service, schools, environment, social services.
Especially harmful to children.

Landscape and bonescape

Last week I went to Castlerigg Stone Circle to have a go at drawing the stones and the landscape – I don’t attempt landscape much as it always seems too big for the page and there are so many people much better at it. But it was a nice day so …

It took twice as long as normal to get there, because of road works on the A66 and some ink had escaped and I had to chase a piece of paper which blew off the drawing board – so by the time I started drawing I felt a bit like Mr Bean. This is another reason why I don’t do much landscape drawing.

There were quite a few people wandering about, but I left them out.

Then yesterday I had another go at the sheep skull – intending to do something more unidentifiable with a closeup and adding colour, I ended up with this. So much for intentions.