Here are some more tiny and fast drawings from my rearview mirror series. (These are drawings made from images in the various mirrors of my car, often drawn on the back of parking vouchers).
Woden, ACT, behind the post office, ballpoint pen
More recently.
Multi-storey carpark, Canberra, 5 December 2015, ballpoint pen
Latest.
Scary self-portrait, ballpoint pen, 9 December 2014
It’s been awhile since I drew the dinosaur (replica) that resides next to our local cafe, so here she/he is.
My local dinosaur, pen and ink, Kambah, ACT, 10 December 2014
It’s just been announced that the Urban Sketchers group will be holding their international symposium for 2015 in Singapore. I’ve been quite envious when I have seen the posts of previous symposia in Paraty, Brazil and Barcelona, Spain so having a symposium just a (relatively) short plane ride away from Oz is really exciting.
At present the website has just been set up and you can easily sign up for email updates.
While things are getting underway you might be interested in seeing what the Urban Sketchers Singapore group is getting up to.
I’m working on my planning for 2015. I hope to see you there!
Using my Copic Multiliner pen, is certainly influencing my drawing style. With such a fine line I’m inclined to spend more time putting in detail, which in this drawing meant that I took far too long capturing the people and spent too much time working on the background. *Message to self – people first and background later.
Friday lunchtime, friends picnicing at Green Square, Kingston ACT, Copic marker, 5 December 2014.
There is another issue that I’ll also have to work on, the almost overwhelming urge to use cross-hatching! Arghhh! In this second drawing my smooth plastic water tank ended up looking like a piece of 1970’s macrame. The hatching also upsets the balance of the drawing.
Old Chairs near the water tank, Copic Multiliner, 12 December 2014
While I still like the composition this piece didn’t turn out like I expected. I was going to say didn’t turn out like I ‘planned’, but I didn’t ‘plan’ anything about this drawing except for where I was going to sit and what I going to make the drawing with.
So there are several things I need to work on here. Given that I’m not likely to get around taking the chairs to the re-cycling centre in the next little while I think I’ll try the drawing the same composition again. I will also vary the media I use and see how how that changes the work. Live and learn.
I seem to be collecting artistic aphorisms lately. The full quote, from the artist Chuck Close is:
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.”
My old cat doesn’t seem to be paying much heed to Chuck. It was a coincidence that I still had my sketch book in my hand, looked up and decided to catch a quick pose from George (actually full name Georgina, but she rarely gets called that). Later the same day I spent rather more time drawing her asleep and butted up against my partner.
George asleep near a paper bag (left), pen and ink and George asleep against my partner (right), Copic marker
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