There's nothing finished in time for the end of the month, so I'm resorting to Window Work for this month's post.
The last 'Window Work' stop-gap was back in June last year, so I'm not that unhappy about the regularity of production of the easel pieces. The quality of the window sketches had dropped a bit in the meantime, improving slightly over the last couple of months with a return to using mostly pencil. As ever, the sketches presented are by far and away the very best examples - most of the rest are, shall we say, 'not so good'.
As ever, the subjects are just passers-by as observed while sitting (with a cup of tea and a 30-minute radio programme) looking up the road through the window. The postman – on the far right – is a regular subject, but he shifts very fast indeed. The dogs are difficult because I have no great familiarity with their forms, and I need a lot of 'seeing' to get an idea of how they work.
Of these drawings, I quite like the efficiency of the grumpy girl on the left - there's a feeling of her weight and 'slump' - but my favourite of this selection is the light and jittery pencil sketch of the girl with her dog. It's very energetic, with just enough information to let us 'join the dots' about what's happening.
Meanwhile the easel work grinds on, and I'll hopefully have some more complex pieces to present in May and the coming months.
I should just like to point out that our regular postie has never - to my knowledge - had any problems with dogs. Not on this street anyway...
