Sign of the Black Cat: On My Birthday

I'm going to make this quick. Not because it's my birthday, but because it's Monday, and on Monday I work a lot.

I was going to post over the weekend. In the end it was taken up with life stuff and visits from friends I haven't seen for a long time. So here I am on Monday...

First up is a couple of scans of sketches. I did put some colour on the city park sketch and like it much more than the original. My boyfriend thinks the original captured the bleakness of the City Park. For a park, there is very little greenery.

City Park in Colour

On Thursday, I was in Shipley Library again with less time than usual to draw. I did a couple of sketches of people on the internet. They don't stay quite as still as the men reading.

On the Internet

As I mentioned at the end of last week, I started a course on Friday morning At Hive in Shipley. It's nearly always the case that the first session of any course that gets outside funding is a paper chase. This one was no exception. Now we've got all of that out of the way, we'll be able to really get on with the fun. Rachel, the tutor, did manage to get the paperwork done with in time for us to have a play with the two different raku clays that will be available.

To break the ice (as some people had no clay working experience at all), she divided us into two groups and gave us fifteen minutes to produce a tableau. She gave each group a different brief. For my group it was Swan Lake, and for the other group it was an illegal rave. The intention was to let us just get the feel for the clay and for the pitfalls of constructing figures. There were no expectations, and no one had to save the figures they made unless they wanted to. I did because they will be useful in later weeks as test pieces.