2017 and Shoes, of course!

 

 

So, here we are....2017.Doesn't that sound odd?

 

I had a wonderful Christmas with friends and family and absolutely no sketching at all!!!! So not like me.

I was spoiled rotten and, to my delight, unwrapped many pairs of shoes on Christmas day!

 

This is a pair I purchased and sketched before Christmas...aren't they adorable?

 

I hope you all had a warm, wonderful, relaxing holiday and, although a tad late, I wish you all a fantastic new year!

Criminal Minds

 

Love this show!

A quick pause on the TV and a Lamy Safari fountain pen.

Only three of the characters were sketched from the TV before I clicked play and created a few more characters from imagination to fill the scene

Ruby Shoo

 

 

God I love shoes!

A Christmas gift from last year, worn recently for the first time.

A Quickie With Troy

 

Scuse the pun!

 

A few minutes sketching from the film Troy.

Friends

 

A late night quickie of some of my little dogs friends

Femme

Quick studies

In The Gym

 

Took my sketchbook into the gym to sketch my Son training. I asked him to continue as if I wasn't there. He moved so quick!!! I was the other side of the bag, just out of reach...Just!

 

This was challenging, a little bit scary and turned out to be a great exercise for me too!

 

Mums Creation

One of my Mums silk floral arrangements

Benwick, Cambridgeshire UK

 

Popped the Sunday roast in the oven and drove into the next village for a quick sketch while it cooked

Debut

 

I have owned these shoes for over five years and finally wore them for the first time!

Just love them!

I know they look high, they are, but they are very easy to wear and surprisingly comfy.

Chatteris, Cambridgeshire UK

 

A quick sketch from the supermarket car park before my weekly grocery shop.

Brexit

 

I stayed up all night watching the results of this infamous referendum unfold...sketchbook in hand pen flowing.

15 Minute Reflection

 

Speed sketching!

 

I know it's not a masterpiece, I know it's not my best work but............

As I put my paintbrush down and stared back at this spread I thought about what I was able to achieve in 15 minutes when I first started keeping a daily journal and how far I had come, how much easier the lines came, how much looser the paint flowed, how I didn't now have to rub out all the pencil lines I made over and over, how scary that first time drawing with ink was knowing I couldn't erase and how that fountain pen is now my favourite tool.

 

So, no, it's not a masterpiece but it is so much more than just two rather disjointed female faces to me!

Eastalls Close, Doddington, Cambs UK

 

Drove into the village to give Kinx a walk around the church yard and stopped off behind the church for a quick sketch while he slept on the front seat....exhausted.

TV Sketching

Very quick study from a TV still

Polka Dot Bows

Shoes!

Nuff said!

Quick and Loose

I, of course, refer to the style in the title not the subject! LOL!

Pulse Victims

I sketched this spread while trying to digest the horrific news from Orlando Florida

Sunday

Quick journal spread to log the day

Ramsey Cricket Club, Cambridgeshire UK

 

Yep! That's my little Italian Greyhound getting smacked across the head by a cricket ball. Thank God it bounced first and only skimmed the side of his head or I think it would have killed him!

Very scary!

Kinx was bruised and more than a little shocked  but otherwise fine.

 

The guy in the hat was walking around having a little chat with himself, bless him.