Europa

Dry watercolour pencil and ink

One of the items on this week's scavenger hunt list at Wet Canvas is to sketch a sculpture. This prompted me to sketch my figurine called Europa, made by the Enesco Gallery. I love everything about this beautiful piece, especially the fact that my boys gifted her to me.

Celebration Hunt

Managed a couple of pages for the 79th Scavenger Hunt over at Wet Canvas over the weekend.
I decided to stick the list into my journal before drawing the items over it on the first page because I always tend to loose it and have to print several throughout each hunt. So far, it's working a treat, even though my sketching has made it a little difficult to read in places.


Monday was my Son's 10th Birthday. We had a great day and the champers and the toys Harry purchased allowed me to tick another couple of items of the scavenger hunt list!

A Hunting We Shall Go

The art from life forum over at Wet Canvas run a weekly scavenger hunt.

Basically, a member creates a list of objects and challenges and you sketch from the list over the week with the aim of completing it.

It was these hunts that first started me keeping a sketchbook and I still find them very handy as a quick resource for inspiration when choosing a subject becomes a task.

I completed 6 of the items from this week's list in the grid format below, each box measures approx. 5 cms square.

My 7th entry covers the 'sketch a pile of something' item, I chose eggshells, watercolour, a large square brush and a slightly different approach to how I usually work.

Just For Me

Both unfinished...Both on purpose!

I am a sucker for an unfinished sketch, I find them truly inspirational. They offer hope, action, insight and, for me personally, stir my creativity more than any finished piece ever could.

So, I created two whole pages of hope, action, insight and inspiration, purely for my own pleasure...because sometimes it has to be Me, Me, Me!

(Admit it, right now you just want to fill that boot and tulip in with ink hatching don't you?)

Monday Squares

Another 3 additions to my Seawhite square sketchbook started with a rather unflattering, speedy sketch of Harry playing an electronic game before school. The angle I sketched him from together with my composition on the paper and lack of caffeine has resulted in his head looking a little large for his body!



Midday, time for a sketch but not sure what to draw so I popped into the 'artwork from life' forum at Wet Canvas and checked out this week's scavenger hunt list for ideas.



Incidentally, this is my 200th post to this blog...Proof that I never shut up!

A Scavenge Through 2006

Inspiration has struck me like a truck going 120mph on the motorway and I've been very busy the last couple of days creating, sketching and planning characters for a book...It is very exciting!

So, with nothing new I can show you, I thought it would be a good idea to show you some of my sketches from my first sketch books which I started in 2006, yes, just a year ago! It all started when I ventured over to the 'Art from life' forum on the Wet Canvas website. I clicked on the thread entitled 'Scavenger Hunt' with curiosity and found a list of 26 items and a deadline of seven days until the next hunt began. All items on the list had to be sketched from life and, although the prospect scared me a little, I felt I owed it to myself to break away from the static images I'd been used to and improve my sketching abilities by capturing the things around me in my sketchbook...that is, after I had actually purchased one!

The Scavenger Hunts set me free and have not only improved my drawing ability but my vision, confidence and imagination have blossomed because of them.

Here are a few of those sketches, my first taste of sketchbooks and the start of my present passion:

Hunt #1 - Still life in pen and wash

Hunt #2 - Fish ornament in pen and wash

Hunt #3 - Water pistol in Pitt brush pens

Hunt #4 - Human Eye in pen and wash

EDM Challenges 27, 54 and 55

I had a very productive day today and among other things I managed to knock another three challenges off the EDM challenge list while at the same time completing two of the items on this weeks Wet Canvas scavenger hunt.

Challenge 27 was to sketch a book and sketchbook was on the scavenger hunt list, so I chose my W&N journal and my small Venezia sketchbooks for this sketch because of their attractive covers:


Challenge 54 was to sketch something you love. I love music and have recently purchased a small, portable sound system for the studio. Radio was also on the scavenger hunt list this week, so I managed to complete both tasks in this one sketch:



Finally, challenge 55 was to sketch a doorknob. I chose one of the handles on my studio sideboard for this sketch:



All of the sketches are in my A6 W&N 'Little book of challenges' and are created using pigment liner and watercolour.