People on the train from Frankfurt to Weinheim

My travel sketchbooks were of various sizes and formats, not one exactly like any of the others. When I came back I started producing drawings for my exhibition on single sheets of paper so they could be framed, also it was cold and I wasn’t spending much time out and about, so for a while […]
Shortly after the Urban Sketchers Symposium was over, while I was still in Lisbon and haggling with a guy from Turkmenistan who had been supposed to send me the letter of introduction I would need to get the visa by July 26 but hadn’t, I realised that trying to organise the part of my travels […]
I have been experimenting with ink washes (brushing over ink lines with water) for some weeks, but it was only on Wednesday that the potential that lies in making a mess on a page started to dawn on me. Looking back, I usually prefer the dirtier of my drawings to the clean ones, smudged pencil […]
After some months of basically being locked in by the cold, rain, and snow, every day I wake up hoping that this day the sun is going to come out and allow me at least a tiny bit of sketching outside. On Friday it didn’t, but I drew anyway, without taking off my gloves. That […]
I’m going wild with the layering of sketches done with different pens. Maybe I’m even getting lost in there. And some details:
In last weeks session I felt like the one minute poses had the nicest flow to them; every week seems to be different in regards to which duration of pose works best for me. Still I long for session which stick to just one kind of duration, to encourage experimentation and make it easier to […]
Some twenty minute poses from life drawing two weeks ago, looking forward to going again tomorrow! In that last one I had just erased my preliminary lines and started putting in the ‘real’ ones when the pose changed, but somehow I like the point at which I was forced to stop.
I’ve started going to life drawing sessions more than a year ago, but mostly took it as a chance to get out of my little sketchbooks and onto big big sheets of paper. Now that I have even bigger sheets of paper pinned to the walls of my room to draw on, I can go […]