Sketching Today

Some challenging exercises

Today's meeting of our U3A Sketching Group was held at the home of one of our members who has a brilliant collection of shells, including some huge tropical ones. We arranged a couple of them on a glass-topped table and then found we had two problems to think about: the light and shade on the shells, and the reflecting and transparent characteristics of the glass table top.

 

Here is my effort:

 

 

 

When I had struggled for a while I tried another tack: my first effort with charcoal, some trees in a nearby park:

 

 

We have had a beautiful week of weather and early one fine, still morning I spotted the sunlight on some trees outside our kitchen window, so I sat down and tried to capture the differences:

 

 

I also tried another watercolour sketch of a Lowry painting:

 

 

In the same way I earlier tried to copy a photo from a travel magazine, on the banks of the River Nile: