Drawing Tuesday - "warm"

 From Richard - my feet in my very warm old Afghan hut shoes.

From Ann - A Roses choc against hot orange background. 

From Carol - I revisited an old drawing of fire I did from a couple of years ago and softened it with a rubber

From Janet B - my favourite tea cosy.

From Jo - Mmmm! Warm!

From Joyce - Oh, the Joy of getting into a warm bed!

From Judith - A good old cuppa!

From Sue K - We grew these lemon drop chillies - which certainly are warming! 

From Janet K - A Christmas present from my hubby. Very cosy and a wonderful warm colour.

Drawing Tuesday - "window of opportunity"

From Ann - A drawing composition waiting to be painted!

From Gill - A burglar at work

From Janet B - Here are two I did in August 2018 from a window in the Royal London hospital. It was my second visit of the week and I was so taken with the view the first time that I took along a sketchbook and one of my favourite 2Bs. It was a long wait before I was seen but drawing was a very good way of calming my nerves. 

From Janet K - The window of opportunity to travel safely seems to be very grey and cloudy to me but maybe there is a bit of light on the horizon. Apologies to Matisse.

From Jo - Window for a grey day!

From Joyce -  we found this friendly, welcoming cafe this drizzly morning, just when we needed a coffee! 

From Judith - Here is my ‘windows of opportunity’

From Mags -  playing around  with strange juxtapositions using ' windows' created when cutting out  bits from my Greek Mythology collage book  and  the back of a camera found on a walk last year, offering different possibilities in framing a view

From Sue B - Windows in a friend’s cottage in Dorset, which beckoned lovely, cosy insides!!…I drew this in 2020 from a photograph sent to me 

From Sue K - The image is a sculpture of window shapes from the Somerset House Millenium exhibition last year - can’t find any info on the artist. Thought this mixed assembly of window parts heralded an escape route for birds which l added in. 

From Richard - I thought about our current news opening wider the window of opportunity to be rid of Boris Johnson and his cronies, and maybe even Trump. Too hard to draw, possibly too much to hope for, so I've settled for consumer fantasies.

Drawing Tuesday - "open a book..."

 The idea is that you open a book, any book, and point to a word, then use the word - or the sentence or any word in it - as a starting point. 

If the first sentence doesn't inspire, you get two more tries, in that book or another. 

From Janet B - I wasn’t expecting a biography of Philip Larkin by Andrew Motion to come up with a pantomime horse but it did and I’m so glad it did. What a joyously silly way to start the new year. 

From Carol - My second attempt was “a balancing boulder” so here is one in Digby Canada known as Nature’s time post.

From Sue K -  from ‘The Inheritors’ by William Golding. The phrase was ‘cupped his hands’. Decided to have a waterfall into the ‘cup’.

From Mags - Sorting through  my threads  and my art materials,  my word  from  a book had to be ' Entangled'  !   My current read is Robert MacFarlene's ' Underland'  ; the chapter  on the 'Understorey'  led me to purchase my next  book ' Entangled  Life'   by  Merlin Sheldrake  on fungi.  I had great fun useing  a picture from my 'Greek Mythology'  book with lots of different pens, pencils and crayons. 

From Gill - I’m currently making a small book of collages so here it is open.

From Janet K - I opened Patch Work - A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox to the section headed 'Lustre'. Went through my stuff and ate a few of the chocolate coins from my Christmas stocking for shiny things.

From Ann - Haiku...

Leaves lined with rime frost

on a cold winter morning

awaiting the sun...

'Leaves' was first word

From Najlaa - The word is Birch.

This poem is from a book  nature poem of every day of the year.

Birch Trees

The night is white

The moon is high

The birch trees lean

Against the sky

From Joyce - From “Where the Crawdads sing”, page 145, line 8, heart.

Here’s a drawing of a heart showing the circulatory system,  from the internet.
Courtesy of Bryan Brandenburg.

From Jo - I intended to ditch this one, and do something sensible, but couldn't get the idea out of my head. It was a 1940s/50s Blue Guide to London. I opened it at a description of exhibits in the British Museum. It said "In Case A, Mummy of a man of the prehistoric period (c. 7000 B.C.)". I drew the man and his mummy!

From Judith - From the children’s book ‘The Legend of Bolster’  my word was ‘mess’. I didn’t have to look far.

From me - "Rubber" from "A History of Southeast Asia", the chapter on the spread of rubber plantations...

 

Drawing Tuesday - getting ready for the new year

 From Janet K - Getting ready for the new year. One job is to decide how much to prune back my fig tree.

From Jo - I was attempting work indoors!

From Joyce - I’m getting ready for the New Year with a new interest, Paper Sculpture, my husband bought me a book on the subject for Christmas.
Great fun! 

From SueK - an early Christmas tree clear-out 

Drawing Tuesday - topics for January to April 2022

January

4 -  "open a book" - the idea is that you open a book, any book, and point to a word, then use the word - or the sentence or any word in it - as a starting point. If the first sentence doesn't inspire, you get two more tries, in that book or another

11 - "window of opportunity". 

18 - Warm

25 - From an old sketchbook

February

1 - Tiny things

8 - Umbrellas

15 - Animal magic

22 - Pots

March

1 - Collage

8 - Textures

15 - Postcard from a happy place

22 - Old utensils

29   - View into cupboard, drawer, shed

April

5 - Red

12 - Vases 

19 - In the news

26 - Knots / knotted