Drawing Tuesday - Maritime Museum

My small pencil case contained a gold pencil crayon, and I found something golden to draw - Prince Frederick's barge, designed by William Kent in 1731, with carvings by John Marshall. The dolphins look rather like dragons of the sea -

I was intrigued by the pattern of the scales, both in terms of placement and tone (illicit touching had rubbed off some of the gilding) -

The illustration in the display got the scales -

 ... but I struggled -

Once I'd warmed up with the Golden Porpoise, the front-on drawing took moments and to my eye at least looks more lively.

Jo was on the other side of the barge, drawing the porpoise there -

 Janet B stopped by, on early departure, with Percy the Penguin -

 Mags had been drawing Captain Scott's Antarctic shoes, first in pencil -

 then, concentrating more on the lines, in felt pen -

 Carol was among the figureheads, with those from HMS Ajax and HMS Bulldog -

Sue got involved in the detailed carving of a prow of a model of a Maori war canoe -

 while Janet K found a model of a Solomon Islands topuke outrigger canoe with crab-claw sail -

 as well as other objects from Oceania -

Technique of the week

Jo had been to a class in which the tutor explained about holding a pencil - not as if you were going to write, but thus -

This leads to a very different kind of line, sweeping and curved and tonal. (Try it!)

 Extracurricular activities

Carol felted a pumpkin for her grandson -

Sue recorded the emphemeral colour of "fiery leaves", which disappeared when the leaves curled up quickly -

Mags had been to a Contemporary Quilt workshop led by Helen Parrott, which resulted in a new piece of train stitching, "100 or thereabouts horse chestnuts" -

 ... and also to a workshop with Matthew Harris, which involved painting cardboard and stitching cloth to it (as you do...) -