This weekend I have been catching up with life, being slightly social and working on future projects. I have been inspired and motivated by discussions with my old and new sketching friends. ie friends who have been sketching for years and those that have just started.

This page has slow, medium and fast sketches that I completed during the week.

SLOW drawings

This is a very small part of a commission I am working on. I have my original drawing and then photocopied it and added colours to the photocopies. I  am experimenting with adding sky  and ground – how much and what intensity. I am working on this drawing over many nights. To be completed by the end of August.

without sky or grass

with grass

with grass and sky

MEDIUM  sketch

Coffee and catch up with a sketching friend. We talked and sketched for over two hours. My coffee and pear tarte are examples of my travel sketching style that I will be talking about in my upcoming Melbourne ‘Food and Drink travel sketching” classes in July and August. The sketches are often just the impression of detail, leaving the rest to your imagination, The cup  and tarte  are only half finished. I have also included the branding of “Laurent” patisserie, and written about my catchup. Join me . Book here 

QUICK sketch

These are some of the quickest sketches I have done, They were drawn from the laptop screen from a live event. I was watching the Goodwood Festival of Speed Pre and Post War car racing.

These sketches are on three pages of my sketchbook. I experiment with using, black watercolour pencil, then coloured and then black ink. I decided early to sketch small on the page. They were on the screen for literally seconds. 

Any hints and tips for sketching car racing most welcome ! I will be attending a big event later this year and hope to sketch a lot of old automobiles.

Happy sketching !!