Devsye

I decided I needed to add some colour to the pictures, since it’s half way through the year. I did this in 20 mins whilst waiting for my daughter’s horse riding lesson to finish. I realised quickly I didn’t know how to get the right colours. I only did an initial wash of the trees and I tried to finish it off at home, but I couldn’t remember the shadows of the trees, and the house was the wrong colour. I also accidentally dipped my brush into cobalt blue instead of ultramarine blues at the start of the sky!

Added a few more details to the padlock. Keep forgetting to mould the letters to the shape of the object.

I found this difficult to draw, especially the arm of the lock.

A sketch of my rubber.

I started drawing this then realised I actually wanted to drink the beer, so I didn’t get very far. Strange how I still can’t get these ellipses even. Also the beer at the top of the beer wasn’t symmetrical. That’s how I saw it. Perhaps there’s some refraction.

This time I tried tracing around the edge of the peach. It was such an odd shape I wasn’t sure if my last drawing was right. I didn’t keep my pencil at exactly the same angle, though, so I’m not sure if even this tracing is right.

This is a strange type of peach. It’s flat and more of an irregular doughnut shape.

This is another go at the footbridge near the horse riding place. It’s much better than the earlier attempt. This time I looked more carefully at the overall shape of the bridge. I imagined it was in a rectangle, and asked myself where each line would be in the rectangle, and what angle it would be. I also drew the foliage quicker. Feeling better about drawing now. I just had a lull in motivation for the last couple of weeks.

I like some of these frottage patterns and they can add interest to a drawing. This is just playing about but I can use them in a proper drawing as well.