More boatyard lines from my Moleskin Moments journal; fine liners

boatyard lines: fine liners on moleskin

conference characters; fine liner on moleskin pad

personnae seen on a recent flight

Air travel involves a lot of hanging around; it just happens that I love sketching folk doing what folk do; all sorts of shapes, faces and sizes.
Most of these were done today on moleskin pad with fine liner. This is my first use of moleskin and and I'm hooked!  the pen just glides.

 

flight crew and douane

 

 

just waiting!

 

 

ait stewardess; same girl, but second one wearing tabard to serve drinks

 

 

baggage reclaim; he might look unfit but he was first away!

 

 

and finally.... in reverse order she was on the flight out

 

 

Fintness centre studies in fine liner and sharpie

2 personal trainers and a business man: the trainer looking to his left was distracted by a shapely young woman

she was swimming quite slowly: made my task easier!

3 balding men drawn by one bald man

end of lane conversation

 

just emerging from the outdoor pool on a cold day

 

 

post sauna

catching up on the news

 

 

 

 

breakfast

 

 

 

various hair styles

 

 

 

preparing the coffee

 

striped shirt and news

 

 

 

Easter morning; dawn encounter

I've been experimenting with a technique I've read about in "the Artist". image drawn in pencil; various areas painted in white gouache, some left. Black ink applied and when dry, the image placed under running water; gouache dissolves taking ink with it leaving dark bits. then watercolour washes applied on the light bits.

The image itself is that of the encounter between the Risen Christ and Mary Magdalen in the early dawn light on Easter Sunday. It's part of my meditation and also a visual aid to be used in the hospital chapel tomorrow.

Malta; memories in drawings

from Valletta looking across Grand Harbour

 

preliminary study of Valletta from Sliema, done on site with pen and oil pastel

 

 

 

Tarxien temple, pen sketch done on site

 

 Tarxien temple; with standing figures!

 

 

Mdina sketch in pen on A5 done on site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nick Clegg's nemesis?

Lord Rennard accused of sexual harassment; won't apologise. Libdem leader Nick Clegg caught between a rock and hard place; he knows there's something not right but LR holds the money. Power sex and money-----same old story.

Fineliner and watercolour wash.

Illustrrious end of an era

I've always been fascinated by the way the big carriers have changed the skyline. This is HMS Illustrious in Portsmouth harbour recently returned from the Philippines. She is about to be scrapped, the last one of the three. It coincides with end of Portsmouth as shipbuilding site for the Royal Navy.
fine liner on mountboard: a tribute