Cycliste – Drawing

C’est un cycliste.

It’s a good year to draw a cyclist I think – British success in the Tour de France, 2012 Olympics and I got to watch the Tour of Britain close to home.
Ink & watercolour, A4 (approx 8.5″ x 12″)

My drawing for Lichfield’s 2012 Big Draw event “What is Drawing?”. Hope I make the deadline! If I do you might get to see my drawing amongst the others on display …

[In 2012] as part of The Big Draw, Lichfield District Council and the Untitled Art Group are inviting local people to send their drawings into the ‘What is Drawing?’ display. 

Taking place from 20 October to 3 November 2012, the drawings will be displayed in the window of an empty shop, between O2 and Boots Opticians, on Bakers Lane in Lichfield’s Three Spires Shopping Centre.

Celia Houghton, Lichfield District Council’s Arts Development Officer, said: “We’re keen to show the importance of drawing in our everyday life and work, so if you’re an artist, architect, designer, pattern maker, engineer, planner, teacher or simply someone that likes to doodle, please send us your drawings into the ‘ What is Drawing?’ window display and exhibition…”

Councillor Louise Flowith, Lichfield District Council’s Cabinet Member for Tourism, commented:  “Drawing is such a vital skill, and we’re keen to get a good variety of drawings to add to a display that will be seen by thousands of passing shoppers. We also hope the displays and workshops will encourage people to find out how their passion for drawing can be used in the world of work.”

www.lichfielddc.gov.uk/…/newsblog.php?id=863

 

Backstroke – Drawing

I’m enjoying a bit of gentle swimming these days though I’m not skinny like this drawing.
Ink and watercolour 4×6″.
October 2012

Quick Twenty (Drawing)

Quick Twenty. I didn’t quite finish drawing this twenty pound note before I had to pay it to the cleaners so I’m missing some detail and I had to sort of guess at the colouring.

Drawn in ink, scanned and digitally coloured.

Things Things Things (Drawing)

Things Things Things.

Ink and watercolour (approx 6″x4″).

20 July 2011

Seedling (Drawing)

Seedling for spring.

Drawn in ink with watercolour. Approx 4″ x 6″.

Bedhead (Drawing)

My bedhead since I got my new haircut.

Drawn in ink with watercolour.

Ouch. Urgh (Drawing)

A drawing about triggering my already creaky sciatic nerve. And this was before I’d discovered just how badly I’d tweaked it :/

See this full size

Drawn in blue ink with watercolour.

Oh and a bit of “Urgh. Ow. Uhh. Ooof” as well in the days that followed.

Quick Smart (Drawing)

Drawn in ink, scanned and digitally coloured.

Snow Groves (Drawing)

Merry Christmas everyone. Here’s hoping for a great 2011 for us all.

 

Thinking Thinking Thinking (Drawing)

Well it’s been a while since I’ve made a drawing let alone a drawing like this – a compilation of stuff swirling around my brain that day.

27 September 2010

Ink with watercolour. A6 (approx 6″x4″)

And oddly when I picked up my sketchbook to make this drawing and flicked back through the pages I found the start of a similar drawing from earlier in the year which had some of the same themes – although perhaps some in a different light.

Ink. A6.

Old thoughts. Is it losses or preoccupations or worries or wants? I can’t remember and I never finished or titled it then. Another mystery of the mind and the pen.