Updated abstract

My second abstract attempt and I'm very pleased with how this has come out. I'm still a bit undecided as to whether this is totally finished so I'm going to put it away for a few days. Hopefully when I come back to it I'll find I'll know whether to keep working on it or not!

My first abstract, finished. Unfortunately I find I'm not so pleased with this as I was originally, but I still enjoyed doing it, which is of course the main point!

New materials and my first abstract

Its ages since I last posted and so much has been going on! I know I should have posted long before now but a trip South to see my sister has taken much of that time up. I had a fantastic time, a day out to Merriments Gardens, a fabulous birthday meal and of course a trip to the art shop in Tunbridge Wells to spend my birthday money! I couldnt have asked for a better time!

And now its back home and time to concentrate on some drawing.

Its ages since I did something I really like and enjoy doing and this is it.

Done on red cartridge paper with pastel and black ink. Obviously its a long way from finished but I am just loving the colours ......my new pastels are great! Unfortunately my camera hasnt taken the best picture, the colours in reality are much, much sharper and brighter, but I'll try to get a better image when I take the next shots. Initial thoughts would be welcome!

I also promise the next time I post I will make sure I have more time and can do justice to my recent trip, new purchases and some sample paper which Derek Jones very kindly posted to me.

Back to some art at last!

It seems like an age since I last blogged some of my art work (at least anything that I am pleased with anyway!)

So here is my latest....something I've been working on for the last few days. I think its finished, although the next few days will show up anything I've missed whilst I've been working on it or anything I want to change.

This is done for an OCA assignment 'Figures in an Interior' in mixed media and I've used pastel and dip pen & ink on grey paper.

This is a totally different style for me and on the whole I really like the end result. My initial intention was to draw this in a much loser style than my normal and although I've achieved it to some degree, its not as much as I initially wanted.

I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on this, the style, composition and any other ideas you get when you look at it.

Latest OCA work

My most recent OCA assignment has been to create 3, A4 sized pictures from a sketch in my sketch book. All to be done in mixed media, or rather using a combination of dip pen & ink, pastels, markers or coloured pencils.

It has been an interesting exercise so I thought I'd share it with you.

This one of the flowers in a blue jug is my favourite! Done in pastels with dip pen & ink.

This was done in pastels and markers

And this was done in markers and dip pen & ink