Sunday Sketch

Finally it is here

the last weekend of summer

and instead of doing something suitably summery

and I am still trying to set myself the goal 

of attacking some back and white drawings using just line

and I am finding it challenging but fun at the same time

and after the masochistic week I had with the peony painting

it is nice to think in black and white and not be concerned with layering colour 

and creating tone through colour

It is like giving my poor brain a bit of a breather

I was going to do some drawing of the bamboo

which has grown in triffid like spurts

since we planted it in the late winter

and after a rather hot and very wet summer

it appears to be growing almost as I sit at my table and look out at it

It is going to create the most wonderful green wall

and block the horrid western sun

so next summer my studio is going to be much cooler 

and I am looking forward to that quiet clacking of the stems

and I thought it would make a great black and white subject 

but when I looked at the photos I had taken 

I decided that I didn't have the brain power 

to attack such a complex subject

and so I resorted to swivelling my chair and drawing one of the cubby hole

shelves in the studio

so much more calming,

not to mention cooler...

Head over to Sunday Sketches 

and see what everyone else has been drawing

xx