Using iPad

I don’t often use an iPad in these life classes, but I felt a need for precision today and didn’t have a sharp pencil. Also wanted to look at hands. This is using ‘Procreate‘ which I enjoy using for drawing.

Drawing in company

I joined a drawing group in a back room of the Horse and Groom in St Leonard’s. Just people who want to draw and organised by Teressa. Loved it.

This was all quite liberating and I’ve done another 10 drawings since then. Mostly out and about with a fountain pen and some finished later with Procreate on the iPad.

That’s the last Thursday of the month sorted.

Hockney again

I’ve just been grazing through a book of David Hockney’s drawings from the late 1960’s early 1970’s. They were shockingly familiar because I had bought the first Hockney book – a significant expense and my first major art book purchase. What was strange was how looking back on these old 1970’s drawings of Mo, Celia, Ossie, Peter I recalled how, as a young student, I saw them as being older and part of a golden generation. This book was small and the reproductions modest. But for a second I was once again an awed young man looking at the art of the new. I was surprised that these simple drawings still held that fresh appeal for me after 55 years.

Cold drawing

sketching
Pett near Hastings

Really cold but this is a very interesting beach with all sorts of debris and trees that have fallen from the cliffs. (Note to self) Must come here in the summer with a larger sketchbook and charcoal.