Drawing Tuesday - Petrie Museum

This fine fellow caught my eye - a wooden statue of Horus (wearing the double crown of Egypt), with some of his gilding and a beady black eye. The muddle around his legs is thought to be part of the linen wrappings. 

But first I messed about with other artefacts from 30th dynasty (Ptolomeic) Saqqara - and ran out of time for finishing Horus....

Judith collected some pots, in outline, and went on to a larger collection of pots, but ran out of time with that and is taking it home to finish...

Najlaa focussed on some faience fragments "with depictions of Nile marsh plants and birds", about 1350 BC -

Jo got out an "old" brushpen and put it to good use, sometimes in combination with a roller pen -

 Carol now has a collection of shabti at her bidding -

 Janet B's humanoid pots ...

... and pot-buried skeleton -

Janet K too chose various types of pots, whether for their individuality -

 ... or for paying attention to their relation to each other in the display -

 Mags revisited some favourite pots -

Her careful and delicate drawing is hard to see on screen - this detail has been edited (on my phone) to add more light and "pop", but doesn't serve the purpose either -

(Paleness is a problem I often have with my own work - too tentative! - and despite reminders-to-self  along the lines of "Be bold! It's only a drawing for heaven's sake!" it's a hard one to tackle. Perhaps what's needed is to carry only pen-and-ink? The very thought makes me quiver with terror! But hey, "it's only a drawing"....)

Extracurricular activities

Carol couldn't resist cutting up one of those ikea scarf/tie holders and adding "a bit" of layered and interwoven yarn, and a few beads ... voila, a new addition for the Christmas tree! -

 We are keeping an eye on the growth of Mags' train stitching....

Thanks to Najlaa for bringing a 2014 issue of Morley Magazine, in which I appear among the prizewinners - centre front! -

Screenshots, and....

After a long struggle on the phone with pushing just the right combination of buttons at just the right time, I've discovered an easier way to get a screenshot, especially of an enlarged area. This is a closeup of the shot of brick kilns in Bangladesh that was posted by @dailyoverview a while back -

 And here are some others, mostly from Instagram, that have accumulated recently -

The 1946-style illustration, so typically "then"

A foxy lady ...

... and here's another

"The world's first ultra-realistic robot artist" - whaaaaaat???

Clay shapes by Fernando Casasempere, bringing to mind...

...  this ancient Egyptian shell necklace in the Petrie Museum

A ittle cage for a tiny book, by Elisabetta Gut

It's a George Eliot anniversary year, and here is her first novel

Woodblock Wednesday - water water everywhere

Missing the class last week set me back rather. This week I tried to take stock, find which prints to carry on with, where it was all going, etc. But what's needed is to approach each one individually, which would take forever, as I seem to have printed a lot of "water" in various ways. I'm torn between "getting somewhere" with these prints, and moving on to something new!

Trying to make a decent grey with ultramarine and burnt sienna ... should it be prussian blue and burnt umber? -

Halfway through the class I was clearer about my short-term goals,  and used the rest of the time to overprint a few that didn't work out well first time round -

These are "done enough", leave them alone -

Experiments on the other 26 are permitted, but is there enough time in this life?

It was the last class of term, so we each took out one print to briefly discuss -

The bodies of work this term from "the old lags" who've been going to the class for a few terms

Veronica made variations of the shading of the pumpkins, using bokashi not just
at the top of the prints but just about anywhere else

Liz printed stage by stage, cutting from the latest print pasted onto the new block

Val did a reduction print of the Mathematic Bridge in Cambridge, using different types of paper

DrawingTuesday - Museum of London

Many things caught my eye as I gathered a collection of objects on my sketchbook pages, such as these early medieval jewels -

Copper brooch with polished garnets and fine gold wirework

Finely worked ring

 The folding spectacle frame could be used to double up the lenses for use as a magnifying glass -

 And the wonderful "Dolls of the Vegetable Kingdom" display -

My drawings were a bit hasty and rough, but filled two pages. I was collecting "easily embroidered motifs" for another project -

It scrubbed up well, though -

We met in the downstairs cafe, as usual, but this time the lighting proved rather problematic. The moving, changing display is hard to keep up with! Apologies for the photographic results.

Janet K got her pots in a row

Sue works in notebooks of various sizes

Janet B's old car has undeniable personality!

Carol's close attention to detail and dimensionality

Mags revisited pots she'd drawn on a previous visit

Judith studied the metalwork on the Selfridges Lift

 Extracurricular activities

Carol encountered an interesting project, in Norwich Cathedral, based on donated scarves. The scarves, knitted by volunteers, were to be auctioned off in aid of St Martins Charity for the Homeless -

She also studied some fall foliage -

 Mag is well into the latest panel of her train stitching -

 Sue had been busy while away at the seaside -