Feltpens drawing of a musician
9 March 2025
Feltpens drawing of a musician
9 March 2025
I am back to drawing again with feltpen colouring of a musician which I finished yesterday but did not have time to post. I spoilt a bit the nose by leakage of darker colours into the earlier highlights but I still like it. I hope you will enjoy viewing it.
Here is a song which goes with the subject of my drawing.
Sun is shining – Bob Marley
Watercolour painting of an elephant
23 February 2025
As I said yesterday I would try the watercolours this Sunday, I decided to go ahead and change the subject, choosing an elephant instead of a woman. The sky was overcast so I did not have a problem staying in with my paint. I kept trying to make sense of how the strokes appeared and getting annoyed with the blending as I had clearly lost my knack for it and so abandoned totally the idea of painting alla prima. I chose instead to paint each colour separate from the other with just a few blending strokes here and there. I hope you like it all the same.
I am leaving you with another wonderful song “day after day” by this lovely young lady called Elyanna.
Elyanna - Youm Wara Youm
Second gel pen portrait of a woman
22 February 2025
I liked the use of the gel pens so I decided to make another portrait and I might do a few more down the road. Here again, it has a very much animated movies feel to it. I hope you like it. I still thought I would try the watercolours this weekend but now this is going to be Sunday and I probably will not publish whatever I will do with them Sunday itself but might decide to publish it on one of the weekdays after that. I am leaving you with another wonderful song from this lovely young lady called Elyanna.
Elyanna - Callin' U (Tamally Maak)
Gel pen portrait of a woman
18 February 2025
After my yesterday’s sketch of a woman’s head, I decided to use the gel pens that arrived today to make a different kind of portrait. I wanted to achieve a stylized look so looked around for some portraits to emulate and it resulted in the below output. It has very much an animated movies feel to it while at the same time taking after some fashion show sketches. I hope you like it.
I received today the watercolours from Amazon but they came really late so I did not think it would make sense to try them as the place I am staying at lacks good lighting in the dining room where there is a big table with all my material sprawled all over it. I think I will try the watercolours this weekend as I am working tomorrow from the office and it takes me over an hour and a half each way to go to and come back from London.
I hesitated regarding the hair and was not sure I should keep it just coloured at the tip or colour all of it in black leaving the tips in gel pen
This is not America – David Bowie
Sketch of a woman’s head
16 February 2025
There is little to do where I live because I do not know my surroundings yet so I have resorted to my old passion of sketching mainly female portraits or nudes. In this instance it is just a pencil sketch of a female head using B, 6B and 8B pencils as well as a white sketching pencil. I have not taken out all the art supplies I bought so this simple sketch is what I can produce over the coming months.
I have been eyeing some watercolour paint and might end up buying some even though I am in a temporary lodging and should not increase too much what I have to move again. It is just that trying watercolours seems so enticing given that it has always been quite challenging for me. Indeed, I tend to want to improve whatever I find challenging and have time and time again chosen to dwell upon something that I did not have a natural knack for and turned things around to become at least proficient in that, be it art, literature or something involving ordinary skills. I hope to be able to produce a nice watercolour once I give into the enticement of buying those watercolours. In the meantime, I hope you like the pencil sketch I am including here.
L'opéra imaginaire - Lakmé (Duo des fleurs)
Léa's chalk drawings
January 26, 2025
As I proceeded with clearing more items for the move, I decided to post more of the artwork by my daughter, Léa.
She had made them for me when I was unwell and I had put them on the sides of the fridge next to the table so I could see them while I had my meals. Ever since I had them, they have always brought a smile to my lips when looking at them and thinking of the effort my daughter had put into making more than just one for me.
Additional artwork
January 25, 2025
I am on the verge of leaving my flat in which I have lived for just a bit more than 6 years. While I was packing, I found some artwork that I had not published on this blog before and so I decided to do this now.
The first two items are my daughter's : a pencil drawing of our family with my two boys on the left side and my daughter and myself on the right side and a pastel drawing of two flowers.
The rest are all mine being some quick sketches of semi-clothed models and a couple of oil paintings: a bird, a horse head and two still-life of fruit and vegetables
I tried putting them in gallery mode but my laptop or wordpress was not complying so I just had to insert them as separate images. I hope you like them.
Redesigning the future
30 January 2024
In prayers
I hear the Goddess
She speaks strong
twin voices
They resonate within soul
path where I belong
My birthright
piles through centuries
gifted skin
now akin
to scales of dragon’s body
harbours golden dawn
Pencil drawn
sketches shades of me
foregone hues
reds and blues
redesigning the future
for heart to nurture
Reading of the poem:
Law of THR3E – Past Lives
Chalk drawing
23 March 2020
Hello everybody and I hope you are sound and safe at home or elsewhere.
This is my new attempt since a while with chalk. With everyone self-isolated or almost, it seemed like a good idea to start with this again.
The last time I drew with chalk was almost 3 years ago so I became rusty again at it. The chalk I ordered was quite small so difficult to maneuver and disappeared quite quickly but I hope you will like this all the same.
Stay blessed, stay safe until this whole thing blows over, hopefully in time to let us enjoy some spring.
The Illusionist Main Theme Philip Glass
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