I decided to work on my American Indian portrait, and Michael praised my work in progress. I was quite chuffed! I almost finished it on that night, but it needs a bit more work on the finer details, so I won't post a photo of it here until I've completed it.
In the meantime, I've been using pastels, charcoal and pencils to do some sketching. This one of some of our hens basking in the sunshine in the back yard was done with my cheapest colouring pencils - I use them if I'm just messing around or having a practice run. I've never seen hens lie down like that, and it was quite tricky to capture them in those poses.
Last night, there were sleeping bodies all over our house - one cat on the bed (Tiger), the other under a chair in the dining room (Topsy) and the MOTH stretched out on the couch. I thought it was a good opportunity to draw them all in charcoal while they were unaware of me. I captured Tiger before he woke up, but Topsy opened her eyes and glared at me when I crouched down to draw her, and all I could get was this quick sketch of her cross little black face before she got up and moved away! By that time Ken had woken up and wasn't in the mood to be a model for my scribbles, so that ended my session.
Today (Monday) I went down to the Yarra River in Templestowe with one of my arty friends (Val) and we spent a lovely couple of hours sitting under some shady trees, practising our drawing. Val had a book of "how to paint for kids" and it had some interesting exercises on drawing and painting trees (one of my worst themes) so I dallied with those for a while. The first page is done in Derwent pastel pencils -
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