EAC

I entered a couple of pieces for the EAC Over 60s Art Awards. One is of a feather, the other of the Dalai Lama. Unsurprisingly neither of the pieces were accepted but, nil desperandum, I will try again next year. The pieces I entered are uploaded here. My friend Eileen, has got a piece accepted and we are going to take it up to London in a couple of weeks time.
So, its literally back to the drawing board!
Talking of which, I have been experimenting using graphite pencil on black paper. I know that sounds strange but the effects are quite interesting. You get a silvery effect which changes according to the light. You can also make changes using different types of pencil, hard pencils give a dull, dark effect whilst softer pencils give an increasingly lighter effect. I have uploaded the doodle I did using the technique.

A first!!!!

I was chatting to a couple of painting friends, Janet and Sheila, a couple of weeks ago about coloured pencils. They are both flower painters. I am not. The upshot of the conversation was that I found myself promising to do a flower painting using coloured pencils....... Here is the result. It is done on mountboard using a mixture of Prismacolor and Faber Castell pencils. Suffice to say I will not be doing anymore floral art in the near future. I really did not enjoy doing it....do not get me wrong, I love flowers and have enough photographs to keep me in floral inspiration for the next thousand years! I just do not want to interpret them in any art media. Anyway for your delight or otherwise, I have uploaded the results.

Update

Really nothing too much to write about but I know there are people who like to read my ramblings. I finished my drawing of the Dalai Lama and have started one of David Tenant. I am really enjoying doing these pencil portraits and I may do more as and when I come across interesting faces. I would also like to do some animal portraits in graphite. Have also got a couple of colour pencil pictures lined up. As a result of a conversation with some friends from painting class I am going to have a go at flowers in colour pencil. Now flowers, plants etc are not a subject that I have done much of in any media so this is going to be a bit of a challenge, but one that I am keen to take up. I have drawn out a picture of some stargazer lilies. As soon as some colour has been applied I will post some pictures of the work in progress. Well, that should keep me busy.