Category: Drinkdraw

Morris dancing

29/5/2016

My assistant supervised from the car.

On Friday, I arranged a drinkdraw event to coincide with the Colchester Morris Men (colchestermorrismen.org) dancing at the Alma, Copford.

The dancers move very fast and I filled several pages of movement sketches. Above, is a general scene, which was my final sketch of the evening and below one of the dancing.

Sketching Bows n Belles. Photo by Russ Smith

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Drinking and drawing

1/5/2016

Pencil sketch of Natasha Robertson at The Black Buoy's April/May Beer Festival 2016

I have just returned from the Black Buoy in Wivenhoe's May bank holiday real ale festival. My assistant and I sat outside sketching and listening to the music, although my assistant was more interested in the fish and chips.

Earlier this week, I arranged for the Colchester Sketchers to drink/draw at the Bricklayers. My first sketch of my Aspell's cider was the most successful and is shared below.

Direct watercolour sketch.

Finally, something different, I currently have my experimental piece hung at the Art Exchange where it was selected for the Celebrate Landscape exhibition. If you are in the area, pop in before it closes next Saturday.

Hello Spring!

20/3/2016

The gates are open for 2016 at the National Trust's Bourne Mill. ©SuePownall

Sitting in the gateway

Today is the Spring Equinox in the northern hemisphere, and spring is one of my favourite seasons. I also like autumn ... and summer ... oh and winter if I'm inside and warm and it's snowing outside.

On Wednesday, I was sketching outside in order to record the 2016 opening of the National Trust property, Bourne Mill. I'm working with the property this year, so rather than sketch the building, other than the outline, I chose to focus on the open gates.

I used a Monologue sketchbook and as the photo (left) shows, I Inked on site. However, I added the watercolour added at home due to icy wind.

St. Patrick's Day. ©SuePownall

St Patrick's Day sketching with my assistant.

On Thursday, Saint Patrick's Day provided the opportunity to get some green paint out as I sketched with some friends in a local pub.

The above sketch was completed on site, Winsor & Newton watercolour with Staedtlar pen in A5 Daler sketchbook.

More green featured this morning, which is why I'm blogging this evening, as I experimented monoprinting using a Gelli plate. Some of these prints I am thinking of working up, maybe with stencils, or watercolour, or.... not sure. Some as collage backgrounds, maybe. Whilst one will become an Easter card to send to my mum.

Now, I'm looking forward to lots of garden drawing, flower sketching, and more spring printing.

Spring monoprint experiments. ©SuePownall

What about you? Is spring your favourite season? What are you working on?

Drinkdraw at the Foresters Arms

29/11/2015

Bagpiper player

I'm back after a little blogging hiatus and hope to resume regular Sunday blogging now.

This week I arranged for a drinkdraw evening in the Foresters Arms, Colchester. After nearly 2 hours of sketching, chatting and of course having a drink or two, our group was treated to the local folk jam, which gave us an assortment of musicians and singers to sketch.

That's all for now but don't forget to come back next Sunday.

If you have any thoughts or comments about my sketches, I'd love to receive them.

DrinkDraw Chappel

27/9/2015

My assistant.

The railway viaduct at Chappel has been on my "to-sketch" list for many years, so on Friday I arranged for the Essex & Suffolk Sketchers to meet at the Swan pub. With quickly failing light and the temperature dropping, I sat on a bench in the Swan's car park and quickly tried to paint it. It was difficult to tell the colours I was applying as the light changed and dropped. Above is as far as my first sketch got.

Heading into the pub to warm up, I think the guys having bar snacks got drawn by everyone. As usual, I spent more time chatting than drawing, so these two were all I did. Plus, Degas got bored and decided when it was time to go home.

I was sketching in an A4 Monologue sketchbook with Winsor & Newton watercolours & Inktense pencils.

Morris dancing

What do you think of my sketches?Please leave a comment below, I really appreciate reading your thoughts.

Drinking and drawing

Hello Spring!

Drinkdraw at the Foresters Arms

DrinkDraw Chappel

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