Sketchbook day 10 and 11

Colour study based on this group of apples, reel of thread and wisteria leaves.  On the left, colour built up in layers of pastels and koh i nor paints.  On the right, soluble pencils and scraps of dyed fabrics.

Sketchbook Day 9 Still no zebra.

Today is all about stripes. I folded a piece of of blue and white fabric and tried to draw just the pattern, seeing how the stripes behaved over the folds.  The first two sketches with soluble pencils were bit smudgy so I tried again with the wide end of a promarker and drew more boldly.  To find out about the exercises I'm doing go to Sian's blog.

Sketchbook Day 8

Drawing without drawing - suggesting the object by drawing just the surface pattern. Kind of like the stripes without the zebra.  I didn't have a zebra handy so I used a shell instead.  My first attempt with a serrated edge and paint didn't work so I tried again with the side of a piece of charcoal.

Sketchbook day 7

Back to the cut  up apple,which is developing some lovely crinkly edges.  Today the challenge is to work larger and quickly using thick and thin lines - I used a piece of charcoal on its side for the edges and shadow.

Sketchbook day 6

I'm feeling much better now so thanks to everyone for your good wishes.  As this exercise is all about shadows I have gone back to a banana.  This one has definite ridges and very little variation in colour so it made it easier to concentrate.

I got a bit lost with the first drawing and couldn't see what was banana and what was shadow, so for the second one I outlined in black pen.