Day 5; drawing with light

Stretching the brief a little here.  I am very tired from wishing my brother a farewell at Manchester airport in the early hours of this morning, he is on his travels as a cruise line photographer, and thought that a little bit of drawing with light would be a nice easy way to get my 1-a-day drawing in.  I forgot the fact that I don't draw very spontaneously anyway and that a lot of energy is required to make big shapes!  Bad combo but am pleased with the result, think I will refine this at some point and try and get some lovely simple shapes going on, I like the depth of the circular shape at the top where you can see a 3d quality to the light.

Day 4 Bowl 'o balls!

A quick one tonight as not much time, enjoyed working with oil pastels though, even thought it's a bit wonky (ok, completely deformed)  I like the shading and stuff.  And I like brown paper.  Lovely stuff.

3rd day, a bit of Illustrator

A raven.  A bit fuzzy as I had to export it from Illustrator to get it on here, I was thinking about that iridescent shine birds have in their feathers when I did this.  Go go drawings!

February Drawing Challenge: Day 2

Second drawing of February after a couple of failed attempts at doing a cathedral window. Didn't spend as long on this one but I like the idea of drawing a picture on each page of a dictionary. Whether or not this could be achieved is another thing! I have dirty fingers.

28 Drawings Later: February Drawing Challenge

Expect more of these!  The 28 drawings later is a February drawing challenge set up by Scottish artist Victoria Evans.  The idea being that you do a drawing for each day in February and upload it to the facebook page here creating an "evolving exhibition" and hopefully see some progress in your own work.  This is my first one from one of the photos I took the other day.  Not bad for a first attempt, it has been years since I have properly sat down and drawn something so I am pleased!  Hopefully I will be as enthusiastic after drawing number 28!

The Greenway

Today my brother, dad and I went for a walk along Kenilworth Greenway armed with our new cameras. (Cheers Pixmania, we love a month long wait) It was a chilly day and not very bright but managed to get some nice shots. Mainly close ups for me today, the camera I went for was a Fuji finepix F80exr, for those who love a good

combination of random numbers and letters. There are a lot of settings to be used, including some manual controls. I am intrigued by the inclusion of a "cat" AND a "dog" setting, I'm not sure how this magical camera enhances cattiness or dogginess but neither were of any use on this walk. I could have done with a squirrel setting instead. The picture of me and my brother is the result of the "skin smooth" setting which we decided was a very good thing in our advancing years! The Greenway is one of the routes being considered for the high speed railway line and there is obviously lots of opposition from the people in our village, have a look here for more information. It's a shame as it is a lovely walk and you can see how many things will be destroyed if the plans go ahead.

The Greenway continued...