The Coffee Break Sketching Challenge - draw anything and everything over a nice cup of coffee or tea! Four Clues Together!These are the four clues from the last four days for the 'Mystery Still Life Puzzle'. I drew them separately but i've overlaid them roughly where they are in the finished set up. The finished piece will be a tribute to Leonard Cohen and his song 'Suzanne'.
I look forward to charting the progress of this piece and delving deeper into the meaning of the song. The working title of the painting is "Tea And Oranges That Come All The Way From China" I hope you're having a creative day! See ye tomorra! Davy Box Of Bigelow TeaThe Coffee Break Sketching Challenge - draw anything and everything over a nice cup of coffee or tea! Today's sketch is the final clue for the 'Mystery Still Life Puzzle". Tomorrow i'll put them all together in one piece.
The clues so far - a split orange, orange segments in a cup, a teapot and a feather, and finally today - a box of Bigelow "Constant Comment" tea. Put them together and the still life is a tribute to a songwriter and the objects are all mentioned in this particular song. Happy guessing, and see ye tomorra, Davy Tea And FeatherThe Coffee Break Sketching Challenge - draw anything and everything over a nice cup of coffee..or tea! Today's clue to the 'Mystery Still Life Puzzle' is a pot of tea and a feather.
So far we've had a sliced orange, then a cup with orange segments, and now tea and a feather. Bonus clue - the tea is all the way from China! Check back tomorrow for another clue. Hope you have a creative day, and see ye tomorra! Davy Cup And OrangesThe Coffee Break Sketching Challenge - draw anything and everything over a nice cup of coffee! This is the second clue in the mystery still life that I'm currently painting. Together as a whole it will be a tribute to one of my favourite musicians.
Yesterday we had a sliced orange, and today we have a cup with orange segments. A bonus clue - "a musical picnic!" See ye tomorra for more clues...and more progress towards the finished piece! Davy Orange Is The New Black...And White!The Coffee Break Sketching Challenge - draw anything and everything over a nice cup of coffee! I've started work on a new still life painting, and here's a wee excerpt from it. I'll pop up a wee piece of it for the next few days, so that you can see the finished still life slowly come together! A little jigsaw puzzle!! I'm off to do some more painting!
Have fun, and be creative. See ye tomorra, Davy My Banana Broke!The Coffee Break Sketching Challenge - draw anything and everything over a cup of coffee! Alas my poor wee banana!
On prising it from it's wee banana pal, it broke...oh well, I'll just have to gobble it down..but at least it came in useful for today's 'Coffee Break Sketching Challenge'. I'm off to have a little munch! See ye tomorra! Davy Bee And ThistleThe Coffee Break Sketching Challenge - draw anything and everything over a nice cup of coffee! Today is a strange day. We've woken up to find that the UK as a whole has voted to leave the EU, but that Scotland has voted overwhelmingly to remain.
We'll just have to see how this plays out. Today's drawing is representative of the Scottish people. Hardy characters, strong and surviving! See ye tomorra, Davy Seals At Glenramskill, CampbeltownThe Coffee Break Sketching Challenge - draw anything and everything over a cup of coffee or tea! Sometimes Campbeltown in Scotland just outshines anywhere else on the planet.
I had been a long walk down the 'learside', along kilkerran road, and down past the old sheep fanks to try and get some footage of sheep and highland cows. It was the most glorious evening ever, a cool breeze keeping me from being roasted, and an unbelievable dearth of 'midgies'. You could quite literally point the video camera anywhere and it would have been the perfect 'picture postcard view'. Feeling triumphant with the footage I had so far - highland cows, sheep, oystercatchers, even a wasp doing Karate (honestly I will explain this in a later post), I headed homewards. The camera and tripod were beginning to weigh me down and I was looking forward to making my supper, and no doubt Buddy, who I was dog-sitting for, would be pacing about, with his tongue 'hingin oot', figuring out how to work a tin-opener. Coming up to the corner and seeing how majestic Davaar Island looked in the soft summer evening light, I stopped for a wee moment to catch my breath. It was then I heard these seals yowling away...humphing and peching. This would be my first time getting seals on camera, so i slowly started on my way down, along the shore..stealthily, and cagily, so that I wouldn't frighten them off. I was wearing my good converse trainers, so was trying not to dip them in to the water too much, but after slipping a few times on the seaweed, I just 'gave up the ghost', and thought that the footage would be worth it of these lovely creatures. There was a gathering of seals on the rocks, and two 'pups' playing in the water, and well, these wee seal pups were not taking their eyes off me. Swimming and circling..looking at each other, then looking at me. I was sure they were going to swim right up to the camera - by that time i was knee deep in water, and the converse trainer laces were being pulled away by two wee crabs thinking they could use them as a washing line. I'll look through the footage of the seal pups and do a sketch of them too for a later post. If you do visit Campbeltown, and I hope you do, then definitely have a walk down this road and see the seals for yourself. You won't want to leave! And if you do see a wee teeny washing line with even teenier 'semmits and drawers' swinging in the breeze, remember whose laces were given up to make it possible. Have a great day and see ye tomorra Davy Space Boy And TeddyThe Coffee Break Sketching Challenge - let your imagination flow during your coffee break! This wee character has been floating around in my head for a while. A space boy and his teddy zooming off through the galaxy to school. Wee teddy is hanging on to his leg so he doesn't float away.
I don't know if i'll do any major changes - maybe give teddy a pair of goggles etc...but I certainly love the experimentation that developing a new character brings. Sometimes characters come out of the blue fully formed, sometimes they are an amalgamation of other bits and bobs that i've drawn. Maybe he's based on myself as a kid - I took a teddy bear with me each day for the first year of primary school...and also wore a bobble hat that my mum knitted me too, summer through winter. I think I even wore that hat to bed! Perhaps, looking back, I was a wee bit eccentric. But as I say, accept and embrace what makes you different and unique. There's only one you in this galaxy, and we're all the better for having you here! Hope you're being creative with your own sketches! See ye tomorra, Davy Kelvingrove DuckThe Coffee Break Sketching Challenge - draw anything and everything whilst relaxing over a nice cup of coffee! This wee duck was cruising around Kelvingrove Park, in Glasgow, Scotland. He was head down, bottom up shaking his wee tail feather, and generally having a fantastic time.
I took a few photographs of him...but let me tell you, he's been a hard wee character to draw And the starting and stopping of the sketch, meant my coffee was dragging out to the very last wee freezing cold sip, before i put the stylus down. I think it's important though, to put the slightly less successful sketches up too, and remind ourselves that the Coffee Break Sketching Challenge aim is not to end with a completely 'finished' and 100% accurate piece. But rather to evoke the action of the piece, the immediacy of getting an image down on paper. One of the hardest things for an artist to do is to let a piece go. There's always something we feel we could add to it. In the film 'Mr Turner' we see all the artists in the Royal Academy putting their final touches to their works, whilst their paintings were actually hanging on the walls! Have a look at this painting here by William Parrott, depicting Joseph Mallord Turner in the act of significantly altering his piece on 'Varnishing Day'. So, remember - sketch to have fun! Enjoy your mistakes, because it's in our mistakes, that we actually learn and improve! See ye tomorra, Davy |
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