Drawings - don't laugh!

9/1/13 Ink and brush - might have to work a bit on the proportions in order to draw arms that are not like little Tyrannosaurus stumps

8/1/13
This is about the 4th attempt at these roses. The first few are duds. I seem to be better at black and white than color.

Dud below from 7/1/13

Should have left out the ink line.

Only 3 days left of the 'Wind it Up' exhibition at Pataka in Porirua if you would like to see my dyed Pojagi.

I went to the gallery today and it looked like a whole load of kids had been playing in a sandbox, there was rice and wheat all over the floor. They'd even dug the fabric out from the bottom of the bowl.

Drawing a day

Loading my drawings onto the blog seemed like such a good idea until some of them started to not turn out very well. I'm too embarrassed to show anyone the drawing of the roses or the attempt at drawing my son. I did do some quick sketches tonight using watered down ink, and they aren't too bad but they are still wet so I can't put them on the scanner. One of the drawbacks of leaving the drawing till 11pm at night is that it is then too late to do another one if the first one turns out awful.

Tomorrow i am going to try to do the drawing earlier in the day and I will also load some drawings from today and maybe some of the duds :-(

Maybe I should go back to drawing with the sewing machine.

Very windy and not very warm here compared with the rest of the country which is getting some of the heatwave from Australia.

Drawing the cat and 2013 classes

Drawing for 6th Jan 2013.
Here is Jack the cat. I'm going to have another go at drawing him today using different media. I used a brush and watered down ink for these. I am trying to get away from drawing an outline and coloring it in. jack is  a brown Burmese so I've had to make him look lighter than he is. He looks like a brown blob in photos.

Here he is in real life, pretending to be a bookshelf ornament.

If you live in Wellington, New Zealand, I have just arranged to teach some classes at Nancy's Embroidery on Thorndon Quay. Mary is still doing some changes to the timetable but these are the classes. Most are only 3 hours long on a Sunday.

Machine Quilting
Machine Sashiko
Hand Sashiko
Fabric painting and printing
Handmade books (Japanese bookbinding)

Day 3 drawing - bamboo pen

I'm still following the book 'One Drawing a Day' at this stage but I suspect I shall go off on my own pretty soon. Did I mention that you can get it as an ebook on Kindle books?

I didn't have a bamboo pen for the day 3 exercise so had to use a stick thing which may have once been a paintbrush handle. Once again it was nearly midnight before I managed to get the drawing done because I spent the day doing other stuff like gardening, washing, adjusting a dressmaking pattern to have size 10 shoulders and size 18 hips (you didn't really need to know that). In fact anything to procrastinate and put off drawing but when I start drawing I do enjoy it.

So anyway, day 3 was supposed to be a drawing of a person done in ink with a bamboo pen. People are difficult. I screwed up the first picture and have severely cropped this one so you can't see what a mess I made of the legs. Also - the hands are too small. It is an attempt at drawing one of my sons in his customary position - on the couch playing a game on his iPod.

Hi Renesstitcher, why not load some of your drawings onto your blog and I'll put a link to mine. We'll start a new blog if we get enough people to make it worthwhile.

Anyone else want to join in? It doesn't have to be scary, don't worry about how badly you draw - my son looks nothing like the picture above and the proportions are way off (he's 6ft 3ins) , we all get better with practice.