Drawing Tuesday - Tate Britain

At a previous visit to Tate Britain I grappled with Henry Scott Tuke's "boys in a boat" and would gladly have had another go, but it was nowhere to be found!

In the Duveen Galleries, however, were lots of boys (and girls), visiting Steve McQueen's "Year 3 project", and looking for their class portrait and themselves in it. Great stuff.

Drifting through the chronological display, I got drawn to this 1962 work by Anthea Alley -

 and fantasized drawing it "in context" -

But after close attention I still had a long way to go at the end of the session -

Non-dominant hand - looking through the layers

Negative space

Welds making surface texture

Lots of looking was involved. Hoping for some quiet time to take these further.

In others' sketchbooks -

Jo drew while on the bus, including the amazing old lady dressed all in
black, with various textures in her clothing, including furs

Sue concentrated on sculpture made in 1931 - the Javanese Head by Dora Gordine

... and John Skeaping's Akua-Ba

Carol considered Henry Moore

... as did Joyce ...

... and Janet B,

... from various angles,

... and at varying scales

Mags picked up on the wood grain in "Johanaan", 1936, by Ronald Moody

Helen enjoyed looking at "the Cholmondeley Sisters", a portrait (or perhaps a memorial)
whose identies are unknown. The story goes that they were born on the same day,
but this doesn't necessarily make them twins.
(Apologies for the bad lighting in the photo - the lace is splendid)

Extra-curricular activities

Sue's hat is based on a traditional Afghan shape

Joyce's seed pods

Mags reconsidered her "delicate" work from last week...

... and used it as part of her daily drawing project ...

... which also included some stitching over leaves