Come on Spring

At last after a little break I am uploading a sketch of a path up in the heath in front of our house. It's a path I run up as I head back towards home. Although showery today there were glimpses of sun and it actually felt warm, lifting my spirits tremendously. I can't wait for the days to get lighter and the weather to calm down. Kids have horrible colds and have been off school feeling ill, sick and miserable, the garden looks terrible and to cap it all someone at work said I looked 'very tired and pale'. Great.

So come on Spring, lets have some warm, dry sunny days and happy healthy children.

Father Christmas on the Guitar

So a year is up with a sketch a day, although I still owe one for yesterday and this will be added to January 20th by the end of the week. Above is the sketch for today. I started with Jack, so I wanted to end with Jack. Why he decided to put the Father Christmas hat on and practise his guitar is beyond me. But it does make a good sketch.

As for the future of the blog I think I will update the site at least every week with exciting highlights, kids stuff, College stuff and basically anything which catches my interest and is good to sketch. Oh yes, I will also post up current art stuff I am working on as well as paintings and sketches for the Hartley Wintney Summer Festival.  I also have a Facebook page and will be posting selected artwork up there.  Please have a look at my on line portfolio with all my commission work (I need to update and add to this!), its:

www.rosebramwell.carbonmade.com

So please keep in touch and have a look!

Reflecting back on the year of blogging

Tomorrow it will be exactly a year since I first started publishing a sketch a day and it was Jack's idea to set myself this target. Above is the first sketch I put up on my blog; it's Jack of course! He looks very different now. As I reflect, it seems to have gone very quickly, although sometimes it has been hard to conjure up a sketch at the end of a long working day.

Below is one of my favourite sketches used to inform a watercolour painting, now sold at the Hartley Wintney Summer Festival. At this point in the year with all the cold and snow, Summer seams so far away! Tomorrow I will publish a last couple of sketches to round off the year, (this will cover for me not having one today), together with a few favourite sketches from the blog.  I will also let you know my plans for the blog and how I intend to carry on.

 

 

The kids Snowman

What else is there to do apart from go sledging or make snowmen and throw snowballs at each other?  The field where we normally go was not ideal for fast sledging this time, so the kids made a lovely snowman with a large carrot for his nose.  He is at least six foot, so a large amount of effort went in to this!

Snow Day

When you think you will be able to get on with lots of work the snow comes and schools are off and children are at home............

More snow coming, so watch out for lots of snow sketches which will be loaded up tomorrow.

A quick sketch of the fields covered in snow at the front of our house. The road is just sludgy.

Landscapes

I have been looking at landscapes, architecture and habitation, probably because I am doing this with Foundation at college. 

This landscape is totally imaginary.....

Winter Blues

This was taken from a larger image of a crowd on the beach last summer. Yes, I am thinking of warmer climes and wanting the Spring to start. Dark mornings, dark evenings and freezing cold weather with the prospect of heavy snow this Friday does not excite me.