This week’s blog is about shoes.

I have been drawing my boots this weekend as a I decide whether to take them on an overseas holiday later this year. Drawing them helped me focus. The decision has not been made yet. 

I decided to make these the basis of my blog and include a few previous shoes as well. 

All drawings are in watercolour pencil , or ink pen. 

 

Faber Castell watercolour pencils

• Burnt Umber
• Walnut Brown
• Dark Sepia, 
• Raw Umber
• Light Yellow Ochre 
• Black
• Payne’s Grey

I draw my shoes 

The plusses of drawing your own shoes , especially at home is that you are in control of when and when they sit. They can sit on the table/chair for as long as you need or want them there, If you are drawing your own shoes as you wear them, you are almost in control of the situation, unless you need to get up, I usually draw my shoes at the doctors or dentists if there are no other patients around, There is never nothing to draw !

    

 

 

and other people’s shoes 

 

 

Drawing other people’s shoes is little quicker, as you never know when they are going to walk away ! It does provide an opportunity to sketch in public without staring at people, as you are looking down at their feet, 

and shoes in museums and shops 

These shoes stay still, but you are usually standing up in front of the glass window that the stand behind. There  are always people moving around you, only spending a few moments looking at the objects. 

 

 

Happy sketching !