bath legs

I liked the colouring in--so I've gone back to to do this sketch from the other week.

trip to the seaside

Drawn in the car on the way to the way to Teignmouth, an amalgamation of views on the way.
Looked at some Clarice Cliff plates in a shop window and came back inspired to colour in.
I haven't done much in colour before, and drawing from imagination is something I'm trying more of too. BTW, i was a passenger-- it is Never Safe to Draw and Drive.

Found via Michael Nobbs twittering

Crowded train sketch It's a contour drawing -- and another sketch blog

Balancing Pebbles

Treated myself to an afternoon of stone balancing.

Had a nice chat with some folk from Vermont, who told me about Inookshooks. I see why he thought they were a bit similar, but I wasn't aiming to make an anthropomorphic figure, or even leave a lasting mark on the landscape. I'm aiming to make it look really delicate, so it's fairly unstable, not a quality you'd be looking for in a waymarker.

I do quite like the idea though, of leaving a balance standing so other people can take away whatever message they like from it-but the urge to add just one more rock is usually too powerful. Every one I did yesterday eventually had a catastrophic collapse. They'd have been an OK size to leave too. Not too near a path and not really heavy or tall enough to hurt anybody.

contour drawing

Contour drawing is a warm-up exercise that Betty Edwards recommends in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

The rules are that once you have placed the pencil on the paper, you're not allowed to look at the paper again, only at the subject.

Some of them turn out quite striking. I usually draw my non drawing hand ( I sometimes do contour drawings with my non dominant hand) or my feet.

Equinox

perfect balance between night and day, east and west, gravity and levity.

dandelion after rain