Week four. I had less time to sketch this week so a lot of what I produced is unfinished. I particularly like the hazelnuts, hellebore leaf and snowdrops.
The Scottish Society of Botanical Artists (SSBA) winter exhibition at The Scottish Ornithologists' Club is now on! These are 4 of 8 pieces I have on display. It’s the first time I’ve framed these in an oak-effect frame and I quite like the result. The exhibition runs until 27th Feb.
Another week gone and another seven sketches completed! I mostly focussed on fruit and vegetables this week, with a couple of sketches jotted down during two trips out to Aberlady, Scotland.
A year ago on this day, I intended to start a year-long project that would see me completing a sketch a day, every day, for 365 days, and keeping a visual record of these sketches through social media. The purpose of this exercise was threefold: To improve my drawing / sketching skills. To share my failures as well as my successes on social media. (Not every drawing is intended to be a masterpiece!) To create a large collection of drawings by the end of the year, some of which I would develop into paintings which would then be used for an exhibition in the near(ish) future. A year ago on this day, I abandoned the idea before I even started because I felt like there was no way I could commit
