Drawing Tuesday - "From an old sketchbook"

Museum expeditions on Drawing Tuesdays have filled seven A4 sketchbooks so far, plus an A5 book that I used in June 2015 in Berlin. My favourite "Tuesday place" was the ethnological museum, and I got quite bold about putting just one item on the page. These two, from Mayan or Aztec civilisations, intrigued me at the time and continue to do so, so some of my drawing time was spent looking online to find more information ... and I got a bit sidetracked. 

Stone model of temple, 300-100 BC; clay "host figure", 350-650 AD

What I found combined the architecture of the temple with the interior space of the clay figure: house urns, and face urns, from various neolithic European cultures.

The pages got filled according to my old habit of crowding as much as possible on the page. It all looked like a grey expanse, so a bit of contrast was added -

Many of the urns came from this article, and the info about stone temple models here led to more.

From Richard - Ended up sketching dog-eared old sketch-books in caran d'ache with some wet brush. Poor attitude today, and worse perspective.

From Judith - St Pauls superimposed on a sketch from the South Bank and a rather odd collage based on drawing I did of a design on a plate by Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov called ‘The Seamstress’

From Ann - I revisited a tired perspective sketch of our toilet and recreated a Roy Lichtenstein version- a less drab result! Another sketch was from the 3 jugs drawing where I  experimented with simplifying shapes and painted in gouache. The last is from a sketchbook with just a pencil circle and square on it..so I played with other shapes and added colour! 

From Joyce - Looking through my sketchbooks since 2015 when I joined the group I was amazed to see what a variety of subject matter we have had the opportunity to sketch.  I came across Blackwall by Louise Nevelson  at Tate Modern sketched in 2017 and thought it was just the kind of design I needed to stitch on a textile  piece I had prepared from rust dyed and indigo dyed fabric. It will be a boro/kantha type of stitching so  I have made a start but won’t be finished today!

I enjoyed the stitching and interpreting another piece of artwork.

From Mags - My first 'Drawing Tuesday' entries in my sketchbook  in April 2015  were of amulets in the Islamic Gallery in the British Museum.Thinking of those and the more recent sketch of the 'Talismanic Cloth' at the Brunei Gallery, I spent hours drawing a finely embroidered arm strap bought in Yazd, Iran in 2007. As ever with textiles , I prefer the back, the 'unconscious side' 

From Jo - I grabbed one of my small sketchbooks at random and it had an odd selection, starting with a view of a Liver bird in Liverpool while waiting for the ferry to depart to the Isle of Man (?2016) and ending with two things from the Greenwich Maritime Museum. There were a number of sketches for illustrations to the Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks & the Three Bears, so I looked again at those.

Had had trouble with the house of straw originally,. so had another two goes at that (suited my mood last week, the pink pig is reading The Guardian). Then tried a more advanced version from the 3 Bears - but actually like the original squiffy sketch in the book better than this "folksy" thing. Anyway - it was useful to have a go.

From Sue - Revisiting a sketch l did in 2017 of a colourful leaf. I masked it & then worked in collage to do a more graphic version. Had fun not using pencils or paint - just a few marker pen lines here & there. 

From Gill - A quick drawing with my left hand.

Just found this little sketchbook I had with me when I was at a language school in Rome about 6 years ago. I hated people looking over my shoulder whilst drawing so I went very small and tight!

FromNajlaa - This is from 2016 from in the British museum. Then, now, and also did it on a piece of card  to hang it for fun !

From Janet K - The pencil sketch of cremation urns is from the Museum of London - very wishy washy. Wanted colour so did a collage with paper from a design magazine in the weekend paper. The background is a photo of Yinka Ilori's summer pavilion at the Dulwich Picture gallery last year.

From Janet B - Facebook reminded me that four years ago at the Horniman museum I drew this ancestor sculpture. I was never happy with her face which was the wrong shape and a bit too big, although I was pleased with the rest of her, especially her hands. So time to have another go in colour.