New drawings and Drawing Class

Above is a drawing I completed last night, I like the way some it it is almost not there.

A bit more bold this one, I left some dots out as I have recently on some drawings but I now feel I have to complicate this one a little more.

The bleeding narrative of the one above this one, nice sense of movement.

Above is a grid I did last night with the wedge end of a Windsor & Newton Promarker. I really don't think I have finished this one but I will see once I get drawing tonight.

Today has been our usual start to the day, as per usual I attended my wife's drawing class @Barnoon Workshop and then in the afternoon Zoe led a watercolour class whilst I did other stuff at the end of the day we went and bought some extra watercolour stuff for further classes.

I am tired after the weekend and the start of the weeks work. I have a lot to do this week.

Onward and upward...

Saturday 226, Part of my journey.

Above is a drawing I did earlier this summer, I think of this on as a bright subtle one. Most of the the orange dots have one dot in the centre and the centre ones have dots all around it surprises me that the square in the centre stands out enough and make those dots appear a little darker.

Above is a drawing I have recently found in my portfolio and reminds me I have experimented with paint and drawing before. I have been doing a lot of thinking since attending a Barnoon Workshop watercolour course, although this is gouache but a similar medium. As I look at this one I am tempted to put a whole load of smaller dots on it too.

Above as with the last is another gouache and pen drawing but a grid one, it does seem that these theme pervade my work.

I also found this whilst going through my portfolio and I had forgotten all about it. It was one of the first of four drawings I had in a gallery some 10 years ago. It was in the now defunct Ice Twice Gallery in Olney Buckhinghamshire. Perhaps this is part of my juvenile period before I really found out what I was doing, so all part of my exploration to where I am now.

Now I am seriously trying to find my way through the art world having moved to St Ives Cornwall over 6 years ago to get more to the heart of something. It has been a quite a journey so far, like running an arts cafe through which we met so many lovely people and then onto opening up The Barnoon Workshop so we could get even more involved in the arts. This is a journey that hasn't resulted in riches but it is becoming a very rich life a few more art successes wouldn't hurt though but myself and my wife are working towards this, we are just needing a small break or to to get us to the next level.

See you tomorrow.....

Thursday Watercolour etc

Above is a drawing I finished last night, part of my ongoing 'bleeding narrative' series. I call it that as the ink has bled through to the reverse side of the paper, it is also part of my 'leave it out' series where I invite you to fill the rest in in your head.

Above is a drawing I thought I had finished last night, now I am not so sure. We will see later.

Today started and finished with a watercolour class run by my wife Zoe Eaton +Barnoon Workshop. I have not had much truck with watercolour as a medium so as we were low on numbers I decided to join the class and boy did I learn alot. We did lots of exercises to get used to what watercolour can do and what it can't. The first two and a half hours just whizzed by while we were doing our instructed thing.

Below are four of my experiments, using washes, pools and wax resist. I really quite pleased with the results and most of them would fit in with my rules for drawing, so I just might have to explore more on a larger sheet of paper. It was a lot of fun and really got my head in gear for what I could do with this slightly unpredictable medium. Stuff for later on there then.

Over a nice lunch,  Lynn who was on the course brought her partner to Barnoon to look at a few of my larger scale drawings and share our lunch time. He was on the other side of art to us but we had a very enlightening discussion with him about his work as a commercial artist.

After our lunch break we got stuck into doing some larger scale washes and then went down to The Porthmeor Beach Cafe to draw over coffee and tea. When we had finished it was back up to the workshop to apply different colour washes to our drawings. Below are what myself and Lynn did, I think it is safe to say we were both surprised how well they came out. Zoe had done a really great day class for us. We have learnt so much. Thanks....

Below are our results Lynn's is at the top and mine is bottom.

I am writing this blog whilst listening to Marc Riley on BBC 6 Music, he has been playing some great tunes tonight and worthy session guests Warm Digits with CTMF and SAHB's version of the Jacques Brel's Next, not heard that for years.....

More drawings to do, see ya!