Rounding Off February

February bows out with some lovely sunny days. Warm enough for me to actually step outside to draw, instead of huddling in the coffee shops and library. Yesterday, I drew for half an hour in City Park in the centre of Bradford. The sunshine was warm enough for a few brave and hardy people to be wandering around in t-shirts. I kept my jacket on. It was lovely after some of the grey chill days we've had lately, but I need a bit more heat before I start shedding layers.

City Park in the Sunshine

This is the basic sketch. I may add some colour to it if I have the time and the inclination. If so, I'll post the results.

I've been a little busy for too much sketching, so I'm going to post a couple of photos I took earlier this month at Shipley Glen. It was fantastically sunny, but very cold. Definitely more of a photography day than a drawing one.

 Tree at Shipley Glen

Rocks and Roots

Tomorrow is the beginning of a new month, and a new creative adventure for me. I'm starting a course at Hive in Shipley called Angels and Acrobats. It's going to involve figure drawing (which I do lot of already), making ceramic figures (which will be completely new), and then raku firing them. Now I've done some raku firing before a couple of years ago, at Hive with Rachel. It was one day a week for four weeks, with a gap in the middle to biscuit fire the pieces. I really enjoyed it (if I can find them, I'll post some images of the pieces I made).

I'm really excited about this new venture. I signed up for the course back in August, and have been anticipating it ever since. I'll put up some photos of the process in future posts.