Cafe Wednesday 12 February 2013

It’s always a challenge to come up with a new ‘take’ for Cafe Wednesday drawing. Among the many drawing blogs that are now available online I’ve read an interesting post from UK illustrator Lynne Chapman, on Sketches that Sing. Lynne suggests several ways to free up your sketching. I’ve used her approach that ignores ‘local’ colour and instead draws the focus of the sketch in warm colours and the remainder of the work in cool colours. The idea is that if you get your tones right then you can pretty much do what you like with colour.

Cafe Wednesday, tonal study, 12 February 2014.

Cafe Wednesday, tonal study, 12 February 2014.

While I still need to work on my composition aspect, I’m liking the colour approach.

Drawing the Sheep

Every year I take photos of the sheep sculptures of Matthew Harding that were made for the Kambah Village Shopping Centre in 2002. I do this because every year, so far without fail, someone comes along and decorates the sheep for Christmas. OK they decorate them in the most random manner and with whatever decorations they can find, but decorate them they do.

Today I drew the sheep for the first time. OK just two of them, there are more.

Kambah Village Sheep decorated for Christmas 23 December, 2013.

Kambah Village Sheep decorated for Christmas 23 December, 2013. Water colour pencil with found tinsel.