friday quick draw

thought I would finish my Friday with a 5 minute draw working on the spout and using Graphitints - I do like these very much. 5 minutes is really fast and I was trying to get a look at the shading as well as close up.

Sunday we are stitching - well I think we are....

DIFFERENT JOURNEYS

I am obsessed with these at the moment;

Along with the paper I have chosen.  I shall find another book to do the type of drawings Dale is doing & keep this book for dry charcoal & pencil media.

These are all the colours as in the box except for the 'ordinary 3 charcoal pencils' included

This is the line from the top of the second Japanese teapot

It does not really show the colours so I scribbed this

Using some of the pencils & blended them in some areas using the WHITE charcoal - yep thats what it says
I thought that this was beautiful so I have used it for my 5 minute sketch

PLONK - a cut out shape from the Japanese teapot, used as a mask & erased away with a tiny piece of PUTTY rubber - I love it!!
Dale & I are on different journeys at the moment - we shall get it together for Friday - I am off to find another book to do pen drawings & maybe one for wet media.  There this blog has been a discovery for me in that I shall not just use one sketching / drawing / painting surface for all media in the future - my students be warned!!! lol



quick teapot draw

a very quick teapot draw today and I bet you can't even tell which part I have attempted. I am wanting to practise small sections for small shapes and details. I am not actually sure what Shelagh is doing but I guess we will co-ordinate again before the weekend.

my teapot lid

I know it isn't Wed Fri or Sun but I am behind so whilst watching the looting in London - so dreadful - I did a 5 minute of the lid of my precious tea pot - I wonder what the pattern is or if it means anything. When you look at it it looks a bit like a lovely cat's mouth - a happy smiling cat. I like using the micron pens to draw with and I am trying to improve my simple drawing without fudging it with all the other stuff so I shall be attempting more of the shapes tomorrow - the round fat cat type shape.

LAYING ON THE LINE

Beautiful day here in England.  Todays 5 minutes is the line formed along the top edge of the teapot lid
This has been repeated

Okay so I know that mostly a teapot would be thought of as a shape.  I never seem to want to work with shapes unless they are organic, you know the usual poppy seed head, daisy, rose, fish etc.  But these are so overworked.  Random shapes dont really have much appeal unless they are as layers (hmmmmmmmm)

So todays offering at the altar of Dale is LINE, using my pencil again as I love the effect from the Fabriano paper so much.  The darker areas are burnishing

I know what I want to stitch from this.  But if you saw the mess that is my studio you would understand.

However, if I have a good sorting day (oh yeah) then maybe later or even tomorrow, the plan is to sort all the embroidery fabrics, so visit later & see if I have produced anything

Dale is back tomorrow - hooray - I guess she will have something totally fabulous

FIVE MINUTES

One thing about 5 minutes is it takes all the worry out of recording images.

Direct observation of the subject is called Primary observation as opposed to secondary observation which is using photographs the internet etc.

I wanted to record some little sketches really quickly, holding the lid

Quick recording of the pattern, without colour, laying down the marks

This is 'the top brick of the chimney' a phrase that my mother used to say - aim for the top brick of the chimney, through the generations I have changed this to 'aim for the stars' to my children

These little marks would translate so well for stitch

Or would make a stamp!

Finally this took very much longer than five minutes & I just love the effect of the charcoal pencils (again) what a find they are

This is using the MASK from the previous post & then smudging with my finger.  Cant wait to get my tin of these pencils.  The tooth of this paper is also really good, it seems to hold the pigment

I have oodles of ideas for stitch now

As Dale is still working hard, it would be nice if we could have a few more comments.  Let us know if you are taking part & if you have learnt anything from our explorations

FRIDAY GRAPHITE

I was so inspired by the shadows attached to the teapot, that I decided to print out the photo & cut it out to produce a STENCIL & a MASK

Carefully cut out around the shape & the shadow with a craft knife or scalpel.

Using the stencil (the piece left) I drew around the shape.  I am not a lover of shape; I much prefer marks & texture.  I randomly drew 5 interlocking shapes with my Derwent Tinted Charcoal pencils, which I have so fallen in love with that I have ordered a tin of 21 from eBay, cost 15 quid, bargain!

I then used my BURNISHER to go over all the lines, this intensifies the subtle colour of the charcoal

Using the BLENDER pencil I have pulled the colour of the charcoal out around the edges to give this wonderful smudgy effect.  My Fabriano journal paper is not white but a nice buttery colour & I have enhanced to colour of this image in Picasa, because I wanted to do this:-

This is the 2 pictures above combined in Picasa under collages.  I offset the pictures by cropping & now have a drawing that shows depth, look how the charcoal colour has been highlighted, wonderful pencils!

This will be part of this months stitched textile - come back soon for some more ideas

Dale is at the Perth show working very hard for a few days, so I am not expecting any posts but you never know as she is so prolific