Skizzenbuch A5 Sketchbook

This is the last of a batch of Skizzenbuch A5 sketchbooks I've had for some years now.

Lamy safari fountain pen with Noodlers bullet proof black ink

Least Wanted

 

I've been seeing a few posts here and there of portraits tagged with #leastwanted.

Danny Gregory's name came up on a few so I'm guessing he inspired this new craze.

 

I decided to google images and, low and behold, a feast of unusual looking characters popped up.

I sketched my favourites.

 

I used a Lamy Safari fountain pen filled with Noodlers bullet proof black ink to sketch with.

 

No1 looks like something off the Simpsons don't ya' think?

Sunday Doodling

Angels and Demons

What an amazing film!

I liked it even more than The Da Vinci Code and found myself screwing my neck more than once to try to get a good view of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.....Like only a mad woman would while watching a DVD!

The day before saw my scraping around for a refernce to sketch something. Strange that I decided on Kerry Katona, a woman who is certainly no angel and seems to be facing a hoard of her own demons recently.

More From My HandBook Journal

Managed to capture a couple of quick, public, portrait studies recently in my square Hand*Book journal.

Free Range

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Wednesday saw the third egg in succession laid by our very own ducks Joey and Chandler and Harry and I shared them for breakfast...Delicious! We are finding just one egg a day which makes me suspect we either have a male and a female or one of the birds is being lazy!

The rain is making it very difficult to plan days out with Harry, so today I popped to the supermarket and purchased a comedy film, which Jake watched with us in the afternoon.

Choices

I found refuge from the rain in Choices Cafe over the weekend, a wonderful little place in Ramsey that serves a variety of fresh coffee and the most beautiful homemade cakes.

I'm in the process of replacing all my old videos with DVD's and recently ordered 'Stepmom' that arrived Saturday morning.

Now when I sketched this spread I hadn't intended there to be a link but for me there is...The thing I love most about 'Stepmom' is the positive message it carries and the reminder that we all have choices through every step of our lives...They may not always be the options we want but they are choices none-the-less.

Self Portrait

10 min study - Ink and watercolour in large Canson sketchbook

A quickie in ink on a prepared page in my large Canson sketchbook using a mirror.

Hand*Book Quickie

Another quick portrait study in my square Hand*Book journal.

The Cottage At Wells - Day 2

Another glorious day, although the breeze on the quay called for extra layers of clothing. Harry caught 25 crabs on his line and my Aunt Sally was brave enough to help him. We could tell when he'd caught a crab because my Aunt darted off in the opposite direction!

More From The Hand*Book

A few very quick sketches including a portrait of my Mum reading.

Old Timers

Images from the 'History of Boxing' by Fleischer & Andre

Waiting Room

Journal Update

Caught up with some scanning tonight, here are a couple of recent journal spreads from my A6 Venezia journal.

Art Class

This week, in class, I got my students to sketch one another and here are mine, a couple of quick ink studies.



I've been meaning to share these photos of my students with their works for some time now. Jane was so thrilled with her rose and so she should be, she did a wonderful job with it. We are currently working on another flower which she is painting entirely with her fingers!!! She's such a pleasure to work with.


Jane holding her rose painting © Anita Davies

...and Roseanne produced this snow scene from her imagination, which is amazing, especially considering she had no artistic background before starting my class. She has a wonderfully bold technique that I admire.

I am so proud of them both!


Roseanne's snow scene © Anita Davies

Victorian Pin-Up

Journal spread sketched from my Olivia De Berardinis book while watching 'The Victorians' on TV.

My Son, Harry (10), has finally updated his blog. He's posted some Simpson sketches he made and has more to come over the next few days.
You can check them out HERE

My Boys

A couple of quickies in ink of the boys at leisure this evening.

Thing-A-Day - Day Nineteen

SP-15 mins-ink & watercolour ©Anita Davies

A couple of quick self portraits are my entry for todays 'Thing-A-Day', created from life looking into a small shaving mirror.


sp-15 mins-watercolour ©Anita Davies

Thing-A-Day - Day Eleven

My eldest, Jake, on his laptop

11February09-J, originally uploaded by Anita Davies.

More From The Family Book

A few more of the quick studies I am trying to make daily in the large Canson 'Family' sketchbook I leave around the house as part of my focus on people this year.