Window Work again I'm afraid, though for a good reason. More about that further down
Meanwhile, here we are with some live fast drawings. Despite my dip in success rate recently, I think a couple of these are quite good. I particulary like the pencil sketch of the old chap under the umbrella and his hatched tonal indications. I quite like the sheer economy of the marks in the very foreshortened person seen from above – there's just enough to let you know what's going on.
I'm breaking my pattern of work for the next couple of months. Instead of working towards having a finished piece each month, I'm aiming to have the three I'm currently working on finished by the beginning, or middle at the latest, of October. The reason is that I've got a show opening at the end of October for November - at the Open Eye Gallery, in Dundas Street in Edinburgh. That's the same gallery where the last one was in September 2019. I don't want to rush these three at this point – it would be much wiser to get them done well together, rather than finished serially just for the sake of a self-imposed arbitrary timetable.
I'll give out more details about the show in the next blogpost. It looks like the Covid is on the prowl again in Scotland just now, and there is a possibility (remote as I write, but these things can change quickly) that some restrictions could be re-imposed, and that could impact on how to visit the gallery to see the show.
Fingers crossed for a live – and unrestricted – exhibition...
