This morning we have had a fresh fall of snow. Weather bright and snow still pristine I took myself outside to sketch. I didn’t even get through the gate before finding an interesting scene before my eye’s. I have sketched this with my Tombow art pen’s because they are nice and fast to use. I took pencil notes of observations on the opposite page. I did this in about 20mins and my feet felt like blocks of ice! However I was not far from home and a nice rewarding coffee.
Its cold and snowing outside, however I am listening to this new CD “In a Time Lapse” by Ludovico Einaudi. He is an Italian pianist and Alt-Classical musician. I purchased it after hearing one of the songs on Classic FM “Burning” its enchantingly beautiful. I love the whole album and it is great background music while painting in the studio.
Recently I did a demonstration at Stirling Art Club. This was the pastel painting I did during the evening. I had prepared a sketch on mid to dark green Canson paper along with some tonal sketches and colour studies. This enabled me to explain how I would approach the painting.
Funky Scottish have a blog called A Funky Scottish Life and each month they feature one of the artists that exhibit at the gallery. This month I am the featured artist, see ‘A day in the life of….Gina Wright.
Every so often I explore the use of my iPad apps for sketching. Xena my cat was resting on my knee as I was viewing my iPad. I was inspired to open up one of the art apps in this case SketchBook PRO and do this simple sketch. I just used my finger as the drawing tool!