Sketchbook: Charcoal Drawings

 Few more drawings taken from Skectchbook on Drawing Project.

  

The drawings are done in charcoal with some stitch and are copies of famous photograhs taken from a book on women photographers. I was interested in age and skin. Looking a lines, creases and wrinkles in the skin. 

These are my first charcoal drawings which has lead to me using charcoal in my next sketchbook. 

Craft: Not so Christmassy Cards

 I finally got card making, as I believe it is the season for card making! My cards didn't really turn out very Christmassy though but very fiddly and little bit too much glue.

I made just four cards before I got fustrated enough to stop. The swirls were put in simple arrangements, maybe I'll try so more complicated arrangements in the future.

Sketchbook: Experiments

 

Blackberries and tea bags

Blackberries, hair and smudge marks

Shredded paper curled

Mark making with biro

 Machine stitch on tracing paper

 Eye 1 (pencil)

 Eye 2 (pencil)

Nose and mouth (pencil)

First few pages from sketchbook from Drawing Project. Mainly focused around experimenting with mark making and drawing of the face.

Craft: Squash Lanterns

 Scope the middle out, cut your design add a tea light and you have yourself a squash lantern. Prefect for decorating the garden for Guy Fawkes. 

Craft: Paper Shoes

My paper shoes. 

Made with paper (hand dyed wallpaper), and found items, mainly old bits of jewellery, buttons and ribbons... and lots and lots of glue.

Made just for fun; it dosen't get much more impractical then paper shoes!

Photography: Autumn

 

Leaves on a park lake.

Surrey. November 2010

Along the canal. 

Surrey. November 2010 

A bench, bag and hat. 

Somerset. September 2011

 Railway line. 

Surrey. November 2010

 Autumn Walkway Detail. 

Somerset. September 2011

 Seedhead and Sun.

Somerset. August 2010

 Seedheads. 

Somerset. August 2010

 Autumn Walkway.

 Somerset. September 2011

Autumn: when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier. The possibilities of summer are gone, and the chill of winter is on the horizon. (wikipedia)

Photograhpy : A rainy afternoon in Frankfurt

Photographed October 2011