Drawing Tuesday - Tate Britain

With no agenda for the day, I was drawn (somewhat inexplicably) to August Blue, painted in 1893-4 - "one of the many pictures Henry Scott Tuke painted of boys bathing around Falmouth harbour, an activity that was common at the time". Perhaps I was intrigued by the green shadow of the boat on the blue water and the way the body and reflection of the boy in the water interrupted it.

 Getting the sizes of the boys, and the form of the standing boy, into proportion and place was "interesting" - and not completely successful ("must try harder"...) -

I stepped away from difficulty and into enjoyment by going on to collect boats (but not boys!) from other paintings -

No such problems for Jo, who obviously enjoyed collecting animals from various paintings -

Judith chose several sculptures, among them St John the Baptist by Arnold Machin, 1944 -

Sue was drawn by the colours in Philip King's "And the birds began to sing" (1964) -

 Mags studied a sculpture by F.E.McWilliam from various angles -

 Joyce rendered the bronziness of Henry Moore's "King and Queen" -

 Carol focused on one ship in "A man of war firing a salute" by Charles Brooking, 1750 -

Extracurricular activities - a flurry of paper folding and pop-ups, from Joyce -

 and Judith -

Mags' daily sketchbooks continue, augmented by an afternoon drawing in the Ashurbanipal exhibition at the British Museum -