Daily Sketch: Mumbles Tram

Alright - confession time. I have been away all day and literally have not had the opportunity to make a sketch.

So this is the second of two sketches that I made yesterday (Saturday 20th)  in another part of the museum in Swansea. This is an old Mumbles tram, I would guess from the first couple of decades of the 20th century.

Daily Sketch: Trevithick's locomotive replica

Trevithick's original locomotive - full size replica in Swansea Waterfront Museum
20/8/16

Daily Sketch - Open Lilies in sepia ink pen

This is the same vase of lilies I sketched last week on the 10th. They've opened quite a bit more today. I was on baby sitting duties today so really didn't have the opportunity to get out to create a sketch, so I decided to use this familiar subject to make a sketch. There are some grey highlights on the flowers themselves which I did with an ordinary graphite pencil.

Daily Sketch: Swansea Pump House Restaurant

This is the Pump House Restaurant in Swansea Marina. Once again, Somebody stopped to talk to me while I was sketching it. I really don't mind this at all, even if the person talking to me is a bit of a bore like this guy was. He kept wanting to talk about his own art, and the paintings he's done, and how good he thinks he is etc. Never mind, I still quite like it that people take an interest.

There was a lady who stopped to compliment me on it, and she even asked if I was a professional! I can only dream. 

Daily Sketch: Talbot Memorial Park Statue

This is my sketch of the statue on top of the War Memorial in the Talbot Memorial Park, which is literally a hundred yards or so from my front door.

While I was sketching it a nice kid kept coming up and asking me about it, and saying what a good 'draw-er' I am. That kid has taste, (although not vocabulary).

Daily Sketch : Amelia on the beach and after

Back from Belgium. This composite sketch was made in two parts. I sketched the left hand small figure while Amelia was playing on the beach this afternoon. I took her back home, and she fell asleep in the car. So I popped her into the sleep chair and sketched the larger image on the right.

Daily Sketches: Ypres Cloth Hall and Town Hall