More about Shapes...

Like I said in this post it's all about Shapes. I'm taking part in Sketchbook Skool and I'm so pleased that this weeks Instructor : Veronica Lawlor has pointed out that Shapes are important.

You don't need a lot of DETAIL, the Shape says it all.  Think about this....have you ever seen an object in the distance and been completely fooled as to what it actually is...I bet it was the Shape that misled your brain into assuming it was something entirely different.

This sketch is a shape...........

(drawn with my Sailor Calligraphy pen, it will give me thin lines and bold ones)

............and your brain works out the rest.

Sketches from Bournemouth

Our visit to Bournemouth inevitably means I sketch...

that's after I have tried to decide what supplies to take with me, which are usually too many...

 added to that Bournemouth happens to have The Range

so I go in and buy even more supplies!  ...(I think I need help)..

anyway, on to the sketches............

(no I didn't drink that much!)

Kettle etc in the hotel room

Jacket on chair

Random shoppers in Poole

Shoppers in Poole

Snoozing husband!

I spy with my little eye, something beginning with D

A visit to Kingston Lacy

This National Trust property is a place I've heard about and now I can say we have been there.  Stopped off on our way home from Bournemouth to take a look around before it closes for the Winter.

NATIONAL TRUST - KINGSTON LACY

Apparently this is the last Winter when the property will close from November through to March.  Next year it will remain Open throughout the Winter.  This will pose a challenge for the conservation people there, but I'm sure they will cope.

this is the back of the property...

(yes, it was halloween...thought I had landed in a Harry Potter story!!!   ↑)

I used the zoom for some photos....this shepherds hut was way off in the distance...

and I spied a muntjac....look carefully....

here...shame he didn't look up when I took the picture....

must have been camera shy

and there was a very scruffy dog waiting for his dad to finish looking around...

...I think we know this one, I thought he blended in well with the stonework ...

Well worth the visit to this

National Trust house.