Tag: One & Twenty
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Simple plant shapes from a variety of visual resources, before adding some to my alcohol inked background. I have one more coloured background but it…
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Having used alcohol inks to colour some thick textural hand-made paper I decided to use them to make a criss-cross accordion book which I’m doing…
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The goal: Take line drawings and create a workable design to print. After my initial drawings of irises and grevillea (very loosely translated) a couple…
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I’m currently reading about forming habits, decision-making and how to work faster, smarter and better (probably sounds super-boring to you, but fascinating to me). Some…
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Enjoying just messing around for a few minutes when I get time. Whilst these are pretty rough, along with some of my previous ones, some…
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Moving on to the next page in my book I found myself still on very small drawings but this time very sharp lines and angular…
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Inspired by a couple of blogs I follow, both owners being amazing at drawing, a couple of weeks ago I bought a book on figure…
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I took masses of photos of red wine in a glass from various angles, with and without shadows. It was refilled once or twice as…
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I’ve been drawing for days, 20-30 minutes each day, in preparation for my next print project. I’ve started with a wine glass and have discovered…
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I’ve played with charcoal once or twice in the past, never really got to grips with it but interested all the same. So I joined…
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This One and Twenty exercise got off to a slow start. After agonizingly drawing the main sweetcorn kernels I realised that time was about up…
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Just a quick cube continuing to look at light sources. Followed by a composition of Okra.
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A few quiet minutes sitting in the garden looking at my terraces. Not enough tonal variety, the wall isn’t high enough for the first garden…
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A shell. I’ve done this before and got either a very flat unrecognizable piece or some very nice sylised drawings, like this one here. Today…
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A bit of doodling to get the hand moving, then a simple sphere with shadow. Learning how to match the light source and the shadow…
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Slightly behind and only a short amount of time each day, so I’ve got one project completed over 3 days. Continuing along the landscape theme…
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Last weekend a quick stop in the newsagents found me leafing through the magazine shown here. I particularly liked some interesting tutorials and examples of…
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I’ve had a busy start to the year with printing and travelling overseas so my normal routine didn’t really start until a few days ago.…
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Today I’ve had my drawing materials out. My One & Twenty focus is a simple exercise to get me drawing. I pick something, observe it…
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Further to my last post on this project here, I decided to have a go at adding some plate tone to the rocks. Happy? Not…
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Still loving this print! If you haven’t seen the progression of this project click here for stage 1 and here for stage 2 For my…
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Just loving this project! This week I’ve been concentrating on making a second plate to print with the etching I’ve already prepared. I’m aiming for…
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I’ve been desperately trying to get back to my ‘One & Twenty’ routine. OK, hardly a routine, but I’d like it to be. The idea…
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Swans The aim with this plate is to combine it with my soft ground etched plant material from a few weeks ago, which will be…
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My friend Judy and I have started a new weekly challenge. We gave it the name One & Twenty. The idea is to select an…