1st Wednesday of The September Fest & Patrick Heron.

Above is the drawing I started last night and is the start of my new 'whole sketchbook', so to brake my stalemate with it I thought I would start with a 'sampler' approach and I suppose it follows on from my art drop drawings.

Today was full of busy festival workshops to do at Barnoon, this morning we had a morning off, well when I say off I went to Penzance to pick up Canvases for our Paint A Mini Masterpiece - Patrick Heron session, we ended up with seven painters and in two hours everyone had done some lovely work and below is a quick snap shot of the session in action. I would show you what I did but I forgot to take a picture. This morning I also picked up some thermalite blocks for our sold out Sculpture course on Friday and some extra wrasps also for the same session.

After the Patrick Heron I then gave to separate guitar lessons and am now home. The Blockheads are in town tonight but we really didn't have the energy to go down and see them. We caught them a few years ago at the Sept Fest and they are still at the top of their game. Shame we have missed them but work does come first.

Above is a picture I took the other day of a rock with lichen growing on it, it does look quite like some of my drawings, perhaps a source of inspiration for my work in a small way. Ever since I was taken to Cornwall as a 5 year old I have always been fascinated by these growths and the patterns they make.

Above an artist vanity done at the Torsten Lauschmann installation.

I am off to draw or I will not do any 'wotnot' work today

Sunday and a day off.

Above are some of the things I drew on last night.

Above is the small amount of progress on my current large scale drawing. I am having to just dip into this drawing every now and again but bit by bit it will have to be while I am busy with September Festival Workshops at Barnoon.

Today has been a non art day with our friends that are staying with us and we were then joined for lunch by friends from Exeter. Eventually after eating and coffee and a walk we then ended up at the Torsten Lauschmann instillation at Porthmeor studio 5. It must be my 4th time at least but it is good to taken new people to this playful show.

Above and below are two of my early wood crate drawings, when I was first starting to work in colour, they go along way on the journey that I am now working on.

Above and below are two more that I did in this initial exploration of drawing on wood.

Cheers......

New drawing, Taken, Pebble, Torsten Lauschman, Saw this thought of you.....

Above is a drawing I finished last night, I am really liking it's faded, muted quality.

Above is a drawing I did a while ago on some rusted metal, I then hung it in public and it seems to have gone missing, I hope someone took it.

Above is some pebble art I did a few months ago, must do some more soon.

Above is an addition my Son and I did at the Torsten Lauschmann installation, always fun to be had at Porthmeor Studios.

Above is a photo that was sent to me in a 'saw this thought of you manner' apparently it is my friends dog's favourite ball (was)........ Thanks Strawb and Trotsky.

Also today I went to the cinema with my son to see 'Suicide Squad'. It actually was pretty well entertaining especially considering how many comic characters they shoe horned in, but not in a bad way.

Off to drawing and prepare myself for a long drive to Bristol and back, part of the process of getting my son back home 'up country'. At least on the way home he will be able to visit his mother in the hospital, it was pretty worrying last week but she seems to have made a good recovery and is now taking visitors.

See you all tomorrow or whenever you read this....

Saturday

Above and below are two drawings I did in my official sketchbook last night.

Above is a very small art drop I did in Moomaids today. It has been a very strange day for family Wotnot so the focus has not been on art, however we did have a couple of small art moments today. The art drop above has been one and the other was revisiting Torsten Lauschmann's fab installation at Porthmeor Studios.

To cheer ourselves up we are going to have a backyard BBQ.

See you tomorrow...

Exhibition Time.... 'Art Lovers' by Zoe Eaton & Bobby Wotnot and Torsten Lauschmann etc

Above is a small drawing I did yesterday......

Today was a more relaxed day than yesterday, no hospital visits etc...... I went out with my son to get a few things to help hang our exhibition. We bought some screw in eyes and some bulldog clips. Then went for a wander around town.

Here is a shot just a few seconds before three lots of balanced rocks fell on Lambeth Beach aqnd the St Ives rock balancer stood up to ponder and then go again.....

After that we picked up a Moomaid Ice Cream each and then went off to experience the Torsten Lauschmann installation 'After Images' at Porthmeor Studio 5. It is great fun and you get a UV torch so you can play see the next few photos below.

After a game of 'left handed' bowls, due to evening the playing field because of my son's broken hand I returned home to pick up lots of the art work for our/mine and Zoe Eaton's exhibition at CafeArt.

Above are some of my 'Graham's Conifer Series' all framed up ready to hang.

Ego time... here is me with my work on the wall and a lovely Zoe Eaton on the right.

Above is a close up of one of my pieces in the exhibition....

Above are two of my wife's paintings in our joint exhibition 'Art Lovers' and I love them dearly. I am so looking forward to the public seeing our work all through August. Theses last two photos were taken by Jordan Jackson.

I will put up more of our work over the next few days just to keep everything up to date...

Cheers