Fairy Doodles

The Fish and the Peacock…

…it’s always the quiet ones…

Ballpoint pen sketches…

from my Beta series sketchbook…

Ballpoint pen cats…

More cats….

Fountain pen cats

Here are some pen cat sketches I’ve made today.

Vintage fountain pen with a flexible nib in Beta series sketchbook by Stillman & Birn.

Red sketches

Ballpoint pen in my Gamma sketchbook

 

 

Mother and Child

Another watercolour sketch from Mucha’s studio photograph Mother and Child – study for the poster ‘Russia Restituenda’

Pencil line and watercolour in Beta series sketchbook by Stillman & Birn

Miss Reichl

Charles Reid is my favourite watercolour painter and I’ve been trying to learn from his books for some time now. I wish I could participate in one of his workshops someday! It would be lovely to watch him paint and get to know him…

In his past workshops I’ve read about, he encouraged his students to paint from black and white photographs. I really liked this idea so I will try to do some more watercolour sketches like this in the next couple of days.

For my first sketch I used one of the beautiful photographs by Mucha, taken in his studio – Miss Reichl (Max Reinhardt’s Company’s leading actress) posing for ‘Tragedy’, a German Theatre mural.

Pencil line and watercolour in Stillman & Birn’s Beta series sketchbook.

 

Leonek

Hello there!

Here are some sketches of Leonek, a lovely huge orange cat of my dear aunt. He is, as you can see, a very talented model so it was a pleasure to draw him. I wish I could do it more often.

The drawings were made this Christmas when I visited my family. I used my vintage fountain pen and my tiny Gamma series sketchbook by Stillman & Birn.

I wish you all a very special New Year!!!