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Monthly Archives: September 2018

Self Portrait

06 Thursday Sep 2018

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Art, Birmingham, Drawing, Pencil, Self Portrait, sketching, Sketchtember, work in progress

Well, this is awkward. Staring at me for just under an hour was a bit weird, but very rewarding. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not floating on a narcissistic high. No. I’m pleased, very pleased because this looks a bit like me.

Self Portrairt finished

There’s not a lot of shadow in this because I sat in the conservatory to do it and it was reasonably bright. This is pencil on paper. I used my ‘trusty’ H pencil again. I need to go through the art stuff that we have here and see what else we have. If I can get into town this weekend, I may treat myself to some charcoal!

I thought I’d show you some work in progress shots too this time.

Self Portrairt 1
Self Portrairt 2
Self Portrairt 3

Let me know what you think.

What Housemartins Song Is This?

05 Wednesday Sep 2018

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Art, Drawing, pen, Pencil, Sheep’s skull, Sketchtember

A pen and pencil sketch of a chap we brought back from Cumbria a couple of years ago. This skull is very interesting to draw – lots of fiddly curved bits of bone.

I think I’ll pick something less tricky tomorrow.

Take me to your leader.

04 Tuesday Sep 2018

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Art, Drawing, Petrol Pump, sketching, Sketchtember, uk

A bit of a rushed effort this evening – too much other stuff to get done. It’s a shame I couldn’t spend more time on this because it’s a great image. This, as you probably can’t tell, is an old abandoned petrol pump! Although it does look somewhat alien/robotic.

The Humans Are Dead.

03 Monday Sep 2018

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Art, Drawing, Flight Of The Conchords, Robot, Sketchtember, uk

I’ve been mega busy today, and I still have stuff to do, but I’m glad I found some time to sketch this.

I’m pretty stressed at the moment, but I’m finding drawing quite therapeutic. This one is of a posable figure that I have. It was initially a pencil sketch that I then went over with some Staedtler fibre tip pens.

I hope you all like the Flight Of The Conchords quote.

Sketchtember is great. I have no idea what I’ll be drawing tomorrow.

A picture of Folk.

02 Sunday Sep 2018

Posted by fletcherski in Art, Birmingham, Drawing, Live Music, Writing West Midlands

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Art, Birmingham, Drawing, Moseley, Moseley Folk Festival, sketching, Sketchtember, uk

Apologies for the awful pun, but I couldn’t resist as I’m at the Moseley Folk Festival today.

This sketch was another 15-20 minute jobbie. It was a lot harder than the Brian sketch as I felt very self-conscious as people were all around me and people tend to move, a lot!

This one is also pencil, I may add some inks later to give it some more depth.

Im really enjoying this so far; I forgot how good it feels to draw.

Brian in Sketchtember

01 Saturday Sep 2018

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Art, Birmingham, cats, Drawing, sketching, Sketchtember

Time for me to put my money where my mouth is and to post my first sketch for Sketchtember.

Here you can see our family cat, Brian, in all his glory. This was quite a quick sketch, about 15-20 minutes using an H pencil which was the first pencil I could find as my daughter has most of the art stuff squirrelled away in her room.

When I was younger, I used to draw all the time; I was very much like my daughter in that I would draw for hours every day for the sheer joy of it. These days I rarely draw anything, so I’m hoping that Sketchtember will reignite my love of drawing.

I hope you enjoy this.

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