I quite enjoyed drawing statues. Harlow Town is very near where I live (its where I grew up – and I’m rather fond of the place) and actually calls itself ‘sculpture town’. There is a sculpture trail in the town – I’ve put a copy of the trail pamphlet in my sketchbook. The sculptures amuse …
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I have started using my car as a tool for drawing. I travel down the A507, to Bedford, every week to visit my poorly dad. This winding road has a multitude of amazing views. The only issue is that there are few places to stop and draw them. I have found a couple of good …
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I chose a sketch from my Harlow Town Park studies to develop. I chose this sketch as the shape of the land was interesting with: a gently curving path with banks either side that moved though the scene from front to back; interestingly placed trees in the far ground and a large impressive tree in …
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For the 360 degree study I chose to use the multi-storey carpark that I use for work as my base. Each corner of the car park has a very different, interesting view of the town. As the views are urban I decided to use a ruler and felt pen in three of the views to …
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I had a couple of attempts at the walk in Harlow Town Park, as the weather was so poor on both occasions (grey cold windy drizzly). I tried line drawings in black 0.8 drawing pen and also coloured pencil drawings. The drawing pen I found most effective as this can quickly give a sense of …
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I drew clouds and sky on a few different days at different times of day. I love looking at the sky, so I wanted to put energy and excitement into my sky drawings. I used sweeps of pastel and put different colours into the mix trying to reproduce what I saw and felt. This method …
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I am very lucky to live near Epping Forest. So, I travelled there to find some trees to sketch – though there are plenty of nice subjects everywhere! I downloaded a guide to UK tree shapes and popped it in to my sketch book as a reference tool (I may actually learn to recognize some …
I read in the course notes about viewfinders and didn’t quite get why they would be necessary. Couldn’t I just choose what to draw and then draw it? However, on going out to the big outdoors to look at subjects I could re-create on paper, the penny dropped. The outside landscape is so vast that …
I am now keen to try and develop a more relaxed, spontaneous and playful approach to creating. I am actually finding this rather a challenge. I think this is because I have spent so many years at work and life trying to be a responsible adult, this aspect of living has been rather lost. Joining …
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