Tag Archives: graphite pencil
EDiM19 – Writers’ Festival
I went to the Writers’ Festival on a day that the EDiM subject was ‘draw your art space’. I don’t really have an art space. I sometimes draw at the kitchen table, sometimes lying propped up on my bed, and … Continue reading
Filed under Copic Multiliner, drawing, EDiM, graphite pencils, sketchbook, sketching, watercolour
EDiM2 – a New Year’s Resolution
This year I didn’t do any New Year’s resolutions. I wasn’t stuck for something to draw though. I have an ongoing resolution to swim 1km three times a week. It’s been going two and a half years now and I … Continue reading
Filed under EDiM, graphite pencils, sketchbook, sketching
Casper
I thought Casper had cats’ alzheimers but I was wrong. He has always been a mother’s boy and stuck to me like glue. For a couple of months he stopped sitting on the end of my bed, or on my … Continue reading
Filed under cats, graphite pencils, sketchbook, sketching
Casper with Derwent dark wash
Sometimes at night when I am in bed and my cat gets onto the end of the bed, I get a second wind and sketch him. Most times I use one of my Derwent Sketching Pencils, and this time I … Continue reading
Filed under Derwent sketching, drawing, sketchbook, sketching
Zoo – Day 3 (afternoon)
In the afternoon we drew some animals we’d been getting around to drawing since our first day. These mountain goats have their own little mountain right in the middle of the zoo. You can see them sitting high up in … Continue reading
Filed under animals, drawing, sketchbook, sketching, Taronga Park Zoo, watercolour
Zoo – Day 3 (morning)
The zoo has made me think of childhood rhymes and old song lyrics. You probably saw one on one of my earlier zoo drawings and now here’s another one on the drawing of the bongo. The words, by the way, … Continue reading
Filed under animals, drawing, graphite pencils, sketchbook, sketching, Taronga Park Zoo, watercolour
