Chester again

Chestie

A quick sketch of Chester.

I've got an award!

I've got an award from Captain Elaine - thank you Captain Elaine! It's very kind of you. I tried to copy and paste it into this post but it didn't work! Never mind, I'll still answer all these questions in one word and then give 5 links to people I like...

1. Where is your cell phone?... Dunno
2. Your hair? ...Long
3. Your mother?... gone
4. Your father? ...also
5. Your favourite food? ...cake
6. Your dream last night? ...school
7. Your favourite drink? ...wine
8. Your dream/goal? ...artist
9. What room are you in? ...office
10. Your hobby? ...drawing
11. Your fear? ...moths
12 Where do you want to be in 6 years? ...country
13. Where were you last night? ...here
14. Something that you aren't? ...tough
15. Muffins?...yes
16. Wish list item?...books
17. Where did you grow up? ...London
18. Last thing you did? ...work
19. What are you wearing? ...jeans
20. Your TV? ... old
21. Your pets? ...three
22. Friends ...odd
23. Your life? ...lovely
24. Your mood? ...happy
25. Missing someone? ...many
26. Vehicle? ...Ford
27. Something you're not wearing? ...makeup
28. Your favourite store? ...artshop
29. Your favourite colour? bluegreen
30. When was the last time you laughed?...lunchtime
31. Last time you cried? ...2008
31. Your best friend?...Heather
33. One place that I go to over and over? ...park
34. Facebook? no
35. Favourite place to eat? Indian

I would like to pass this award to five of my favourite blogs:
Sheila a very talented painter
Sara another one
Martin a fantastic sketcher
Gwen quirky and brilliant animal portraits
Jennifer colourful, whimsical sketches of her travels

Labrador

At last I have finished my drawing of a dog, which is an exercise on the Pet Portrait course I am doing. I'm just about to send these last 3 drawings to my tutor to be critiqued.

Kitchenalia

I haven't blogged in a while because I've been concentrating on these drawings for my Pet Portrait course (which is run by London Art College if anyone is interested). They do take a long time to do. Next I have to draw a dog. Hooray!

Plant

I've just started this course in 'Pet Portraits' and this is one of the first exercises I had to do. It took ages!
Sorry about the darkness of the image but my scanner is not currently working and I can't seem to get a good photo of a pencil drawing.
I've just realised how odd it sounds that the exercise I had to do for my pet portrait course was to draw a plant! It's just drawing practice really.

Rusky

I know I've been remiss in not posting this week but I haven't been lazy! I've been painting this lovely fellow, and just finished him today. He is a little dog called Rusky that we met in Crete, who happens to live with D's sister there. He really belongs to the Greek man that they are renting from, and when they arrived there he was sleeping in a leaky oildrum. Les made him a lovely little kennel, with blankets inside, and he's a very happy boy now. He is a wonderful little character.
I've been painting him because I'm trying to get back into doing what I used to do for a while, animal portraits. I need a bit of practice before I get going again.