Sign of the Black Cat: Getting Back into the Saddle

Life really got in the way at the beginning of the week. For a few days, I couldn't find the time to fit any sketching in. When I slack off it shows. Or another way of putting it, daily practice pays off.

It was Wednesday before I finally got back into the saddle, and I think it was a couple of days before I was properly back into the swing of it. I attempted a couple of sketches in Costa Coffee in Shipley before work, but was too ambitious. Sketching people in the library made me forget just how much people in coffee shops move, and I tried to do long detailed sketches rather than get it down quickly. As a result I don't think these sketches are as successful.

Back in Costa Coffee

On Thursday I had to grab the time to draw when I could, and just drew what was in front of me. A house plant and my ever squirming cat.

Dragon Palm

Black Cat Sleeping. Again!

So this morning I was back at Hive for the Angels and Acrobats course. Today we were working on drawing from the figure. We had a great model, Izzy, who was wonderful to draw. There is a great range of experience of the class participants. Some people haven't done any drawing from the figure before, and needed to start with the basics. So for the first half of the morning we concentrated on one pose. In the second part of the class, Izzy held a number of different poses for us to work in a more gestural way (and she added a tutu! which was fun). The added wings in some of the sketches were purely from imagination.