INTERMITTENTLY REGULAR #365 SKETCH PROJECT UPDATE 141-144 & 147-150 (Myrtle)

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141/365 #Currentlyreading dog-eared 1970’s copy of The Man In The High Castle. Pencil and Uni-ball. 10 mins Notebook: Myrtle
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142/365 Another go at the hamster cage. Bit more structurally sound this time. Pencil and uni-ball. 15mins Notebook: Myrtle
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143/365 Farm house on a bright spring day. Don’t even need a coat. Straight to uni-ball. 10 mins Notebook: Myrtle
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144/365 Looking across to the tops of the buildings at the University of Bristol. Drawn over several days. Pencil and Uniball Micro. Notebook: Myrtle
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l148/365 Flowers of unknown species. I dunno they’re blue and on a bush, any ideas? Drawn whilst waiting for morning lift. Uniball micro. 5 mins. Notebook: Myrtle
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149/365 Some dude. Looks a bit sad but I think he might be playing Pokemon Go. Vball. 10 mins. Notebook: Myrtle.
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150/365 Posh Windows on Clifton. 20 mins. Uniball Micro. Notebook: Myrtle

147/365


We’ve had a rocky week here in the UK, ICYMI (unlikely).

There’s a lot of anger and resentment on all sides, and it becomes difficult to pull yourself away from the news stream because of the speed with which things are developing.

But we are where we are.

In a recent Guardian panel Paul Mason was asked to give one reason why he thought the Leave vote had won, he said this (I’ve typed it down as best I could from the audio):—

“Many people in this room.//who voted, like me, to remain will be going through a kind of existential crisis of the self, in the sense that the institution we have based our lives around is the EU. It’s the source of our law, it’s the source of our democracy, in as far as there is any, but also it underpins our opinions of social justice. Many of our life chances have gone, some of our young people feel as though their life chances are over, and our sense of self, of who we are, as europeans has been completely challenged by this.

Well.

That’s how it feels to be working class.

If in twenty years time your kids are offered the chance to ‘get one back’ against the people who did this to them, in one single vote, that’s what they’ll do.”

I’m hoping one thing that can come from this is that we learn to understand and listen to ourselves better as a country.

This is the first time I’ve managed to draw anything since last Thursday.

Windows in a public building.

Vball.

10 mins

Notebook: Myrtle.

Intermittently Regular #365 Sketch Project Update 132-140 (Myrtle)

I was talking to a friend yesterday about this kind of regular drawing and discussing if it gets easier as you go, if there are any patterns or systematic ways of doing each drawing that makes it easier as you go. But I have found that if I try and emulate a previous success it usually ends with a weak picture or a mess.

With each one of these I feel like I am starting again from scratch, like an adventure, and the ones that work really well are often those where I end with something I wasn’t expecting when I began. They transcend my plan.

I would like to experiment with materials more but usually they are done on the fly when I just have a pencil and a Uniball in my pocket. The onion picture below I did at home so had various different media available.

Here’s a useful post about the use of a dip pen.

 

132/365 Beryl the patterdale terrier sleeping in the office. Uniball Micro. Notebook: Myrtle

133/365 Small collection of winterified pots down by Shed A, on another rainiest day ever. Pencil and Uniball micro 10 mins Notebook: Myrtle
134/365 Bowl of onions, Sunday afternoon. Kuretake multinibs, Sanguine oil sepia pencil, pencil and Uni-ball micro. 20 mins. Notebook: Myrtle
135/365 Desperate attempt at hamster cage. Feeling unwell, if that’s a excuse. 20 mins Uniball micro, Stabilo point 88, disappointment. Notebook: Myrtle
136/365 Occasional table. Still Ill. Pencil Notebook: Myrtle
137/365 Youngest trying out some animation on the big telly. Straight to V-Ball. 10 mins Notebook: Myrtle
138/365 Various vehicles parked throughout the day on Whiteladies Road. Pencil and V-ball. 5mins per car. Notebook: Myrtle.
139/365 People walking on Whiteladies Road. Cold Spring Day. Pencil and Uni-Ball. 10 seconds – 2 minutes per figure. Notebook: Myrtle.
140/365 Farm gate with distant golf course. 20 mins Pencil and Uni-ball. Notebook: Myrtle.