Now we are moving into Autumn my drawings of the vegetables in our garden are transmogrified into seed sketches. You can see some previous sketches here.
This week’s offering is of our Dwarf Burgundy Snake Beans. Alas, these few beans are the sum total of this year’s crop. They really didn’t enjoy our summer weather at all.
At the start of April we caught up with fellow Urban Sketchers from Geelong and the Fleurieu Peninsula, at a roughly halfway between them point, in the rural city of Mt Gambier, South Australia.
There were catching up with friends and making new ones. The sketching was fun because I didn’t sketch much the last time I came here.
It started last year and now I’ve done two more sketches of the vegetables we grow in our garden.
The ‘Turk’s Turban pumpkin was a ‘no brainer’, so visually appealing it just begged to be drawn. Sadly, by the time we decided to eat it, it had rotted on the inside. I did manage to save some seeds so hopefully I’ll have more subjects next year.
Next up was this ‘Grosse Lisse’ tomato, which weighed in at 554 grams (or 1 pound 2 ounces). It was picked still a bit green, but has subsequently ripened fully.
Last but not least are a small bunch of zucchinis (courgettes), some of the 150+ fruits that we have harvested so far this year.
All the sketches are made using Caran d’Ache Luminance, light fast, colour pencils. My sketchbook is a Leuchtturm 1917 sketchbook, the combination of the smooth paper with the creamy pencils works particularly well.
Last week we had a lovely, if not long enough break at the seaside. What is particularly special about this place is that there is virtually no internet signal.
We always pack our sketchbooks and spend out time roaming around the tide line, checking out whatever we can find and making lots of art.
I enjoyed sitting on the verandah of our cabin making quick sketches of my fellow campers as they moved around the campground.
Even better was sketching the ‘roos! They spent a long time most days, literally lounging around on the campground lawns. Contrary to what you might think I found them to be very ‘angular’ animals to draw. Not at all the soft curvilinear shapes we’ve come to expect from the stylised versions we see on logos around us.
I’m really enjoying drawing portraits of my friends and my partner. I missed posting last week, so now I have two portraits to post.
Last week I did a second portrait of my partner, given that I wasn’t completely happy about the first one I made.
It’s hard to judge this portrait. It is more realistic in someway, but not the best likeness. I suppose the lesson I need to keep reinforcing is practice and keep doing it.
My second portrait of our friend has quite a few points of resemblance. She looks rather dour, but in reality it’s the downside of sketching people during a zoom meeting. Everyone is fairly intent on their screen which lends a seriousness to their face, which doesn’t necessarily reflect their personality.
I particularly enjoy using multiple colours of pencil to develop the darker tones. As we made our own selection of these pencils, we don’t have all the standard colours. This is way more interesting I think.
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