LFGSS Art Club.

Those two pieces on wood look great Rich.
Sorry to hear about your friend @WimVDD

I call this one "Charlie's Angels"

very cool she gets expressions in the eyes really well also thanks for the kind words :)
@WimVDD hope your friend comes through ok.

Been playing with aquarel paint yesterday. The misses contemplating in the garden.

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Lovely. Never used aquarel, looks similar to watercolor.

I've been snowed in with work, commute, work and not been near a pencil or pen for an age. The bank holiday will be perfect to sketch something up.

Thanks @AWu-Tang

Watercolour and aquarel are the same, no? I believe we use the French term and you the English one.

Yeah, same thing / interchangeable terms.

Ive learned something new today. cheers

Haven't posted one of these for a while - taking my daughter to the National Gallery today, she sketched this in 30mins on the train in :0

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Nice. Hope you both have fun @el_presidente.

I can dig out daily sketch group ideas for this thread if that helps? Some forums used to run those.

Copic markers on paper.

Expensive but if you ever want to get alcohol markers they are amazing and it's worth hunting used sets on eBay.

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This is the first sketch for a series I've been thinking about for a while, mixing everyday city motifs into lace. But I can't make lace so I'm starting with pen and ink.

It's not really worked because the black ink and traditional shape of the streetlamp makes it a bit gothy / art GCSE, but I'm going to persevere and see if I can pull it off

@elpresidente👍👍 how did your daughter like national gallery?
And the train sketch is top 👍
@JWestland that's v nice. Yeah get some ideas running.

@brokenbetty keep going nothing wrong with a bit gothy 😁

Been playing with fluffy shapes and googley eyes.

thanks Rich, I like your flumps ;) We had a great time but my daughter said she preferred the Tate Britain... room after room of classical paintings does overwhelm a bit I guess. It was nice and empty though.

@JWestland my daughter prefers the Ohuhu markers now, apparently they are better than Copic? who knows ;) EDIT apparently Copics are still the best but v expensive, that is why we have Ohuhu ;)

her style reminds me a bit of that 80s graffiti character style. stuff like this

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Tx :)

Yeah they are £££ I built mine up using used sets on eBay, took a while. Getting them all new is really oofffffffff.

But those look great too and nice colourwork from your daughter :)

(my son is lucky he can use mine, hah)

OK so the forum that used to post daily sketches is now archived, alas. So I will try my own ideas hope they are ok.

LFGCS (london fixed gear covic sketch) 1: If coronavirus was a person...

No rules or timelimits, let's just keep it easy. Collage on photoshop, pencil, paint, big, small, whatever you fancy, or do your own things.

Reminds me of BBC Ooglies, which is a good thing.

Just keep going I'd say, nothing wrong with gothy, do you know/feel where the drawing "should go"?

yeah, might be worth re-titleing the thread or moving it to another section in LFGSS perhaps? Like daily sketching or something? Dunno, but not sure it is tied to Covid now, so much that it was for us a while back as a nice relief. What do you think @nefarious?

@hippy or @Velocio
Maybe we could move this thread to Misc?

Reminds me of Jon Burgerman too
Eg https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrBo_znepx/?igshid=14lgsgb2qe1yj

Whatever suits! :)

do you know/feel where the drawing "should go"?

Conceptually yes, it needs to look like lace with recognisable but not stereotyped urban shapes in it. I think I need to do some more studies of actual lace first. Or learn to make lace. And maybe try photoshopping a negative version.

I've been on the forum a while but only just stumbled across this thread which is a great view. Was having a go at spray painting and vinyl cut stencils. More experimenting to be done ...

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Thanks 😁 really like Burgerman his doodles on clouds he is doing atm is great silly but cool.