I'm now pushing the keyboard away and picking up my pencil :) Will update with more images later on which you will be able to see on my tumblr page http://tillybees.tumblr.com/.
Abayas - that amazing black cloak thing that we used to have to wear whenever we went out of our compound when we were living in Saudi. It was a true godsend. You could go to the supermarket in your pyjamas and no one was any the wiser. We didn't have to wear them in Qatar but I sometimes wished we did!
Hands, one of my downfalls when it comes to sketching. I have never been able to do them properly so I devoted a few hours to working on some sketches. Although I'm very happy with the hand at the top, I'm not so confident about the hand that it is resting on, I know that the proportions are all out of whack.
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I'm really growing in confidence with some of my sketching. I needed to do more detail - it is a failing of mine that I tend to rush and avoid detail so it was important to me that I try to get past this issue. I'm a terrible 'smudger' as well, tending to smudge to show shading and I tried with the image below, to do more pencil work to highlight the ridges and cracks.
The painting below is a page from one of my moleskins - I wanted to convey the feeling of cold and chilly rainy streets. We had just got back to the Middle East in January after a lovely trip in London for Christmas. It rained. I missed the rain when I was living in Qatar. Rain there was usually muddy and grimy, full of sand. It was one of the things I looked forward to most, about moving back to the UK, proper weather.
I love these lillies. They have such a rich deep colour as to be almost black. They sit on my desk and I thought they would be good to try to capture both in graphite and in watercolours.
Sketches of a photograph taken at Ythanbank in Aberdeenshire
A completed page from my sketchbook of a photo I took of the honeysuckle in our garden last summer.
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