May was an incredibly busy month and I am only just now realizing that I have not blogged. I have been doing a LOT of life drawing and I organized two urban sketching events (see my tweets below).
I also finished another sketch for The Wrench (Ottawas only street newspaper for the homeless) and continued with my sketchbook experiments.
June, July and August are all busy too but I will put more effort into regular blog post updates.
Below, I have added some of my tweets and sketches from the month of May 2017.
I have been absolutely loving the multiple opportunities for life drawing in Ottawa this spring: The Atomic Rooster , Atelier Denu (Thursday evenings) and the Art House Cafe (Tuesday Evenings)
My Ottawa Urban Sketchers Bike mobile - Great Glebe Garage Sale
Urban Sketch - Great Glebe Garage Sale
Outline - Great Glebe Garage Sale sketch
Finished urban sketch - Great Glebe Garage Sale
And, as usual, there has been plenty of practice work and studies in my various sketchbooks. I do hope to complete some final pieces this summer for my new website launch. Stay tuned!
I love cows and horses. It's a lifelong love of mine since I was a young girl and spent many hours at the Pollard's farm on First Line West in Mississauga many, many, many years ago.
Lots of sketchers stopped to sketch the Clydesdales and I definitely wanted to sketch them too but they were really frisky and active, it being early in the morning, so I headed over to the dairy barn to start sketching.
I am told that a young girl has named this cow "Penelope"
"Penelope" was actually my second sketch in the dairy barn. The cow that I had started to sketch was standing then decided to lay down after a few minutes. This happens - it's to be expected.
After the dairy barn, I went over to the small animal barn and found the animals quite active and stimulated by all of the visitors, like this mother goat with her two kids that I videotaped.
The advice that I would give to folks who have never sketched farm animals is to find some sleeping animals to start. Something that I did as well in the small animal barn. I found this lovely little group snoozing ever so peacefully.
Sleeping sheep
I sketched the sheep in a different style (actually got carried away with the hay). I love experimenting.
I was about half way in on the sketch below when I thought to myself that I had bit off way more than I could chew. Time was running out. The sun was moving across the farm and changing the lighting rapidly.
