Old Homestead Drawing

Last Friday I spent the day with friends, actually I spent the day with my sketchbook drawing their beautiful old house. I sat in the doorway of the garage/woodshed on a pile of wood keeping half an eye on the rain cloud that threatened overhead. Fortunately it didn't rain; I drew all morning and part of the afternoon until I felt it had been drawn to a conclusion.  It was really nice sitting there drawing away listening to the conversation of the people working in the garden, and watching the doves alighting of the roof where they nest.

For this drawing I used an A3 sketchbook of off white textured drawing paper using an B4 graphite pencil. 

A days work..

   I have been painting all day today. I think I painted longer than I ever have in a single day on one painting. I hope that becomes a regular occurrence, but I do end up feeling rather exhausted. Painting can be so tiring - to the brain anyway - so when I finished at five this evening I cleaned myself of paint and curled up on my bed with Pride and Prejudice and read with the last rays of sun flickering in through my lace curtains. Jane Austen is so entertaining on every re-read that P&P is always the perfect book to relax with.

   (I'd like to do a painting like that one day.)  The painting I was working on is one I started this morning and have just about finished. It was inspired by this abstract painting by Osnat Tzadok

 My painting is a little bit abstract but it was mostly the warm and cool contrast of colours in this painting that inspired me. If I can find a camera with batteries, I will photograph it when it is finished.

   And now I've got to scamper to have the dinner ready for the hungry men when they come in from working on boats. I think Pizza tonight. :)

My Present Situation....

...is here evident.

More on this topic later...!