Objets d’art?!? Some bad ink drawings…

I detest doing still life! Why draw objects when you can draw people? So this was one part of my Commercial Art assignments that ensured that I quit the course in a hurry!
You can possibly see my heart was not in this 🙁

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Even the normally-generous-with-his-praise tutor had to tell me to improve my finishing!

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And here are some more stern remarks!

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Actually, I did not think this satin lehnga ( skirt) was so bad…here is a close up

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Did I mention these were done with a nib, which you dipped in a bottle of black India ink? You had to have excellent control over the amount of ink you ‘drew’ into the pen!
Done with great disinterest, for some odd reason, this crumpled sheet of paper found his approval :-p

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Here is a silver chain, which wasn’t bad, though the pendant was quite ordinary.

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Another hideous object!

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But there were a few still lifes I did which I like! I’ll share those in another post 🙂

Going dotty…

One of the first assignments in my Commercial Art Course was using dots to draw objects – not lines! ( I did only three lessons, and found that I’d had enough of being told what to draw)
Here are close ups of some of those drawings!
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And this was a shiny faux leather coin purse!

Let sleeping dogs lie…

These sketches were submitted as part of an assignment I did for a correspondence course in commercial art!

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These were of our beloved greyhound – the old gentleman was nearly 14 years old when these were done.
The next four sketches are of ‘The Doggess Who Wouldn’t Be’ – the most beautiful black Cocker Spaniel with a white throat and that tiny little tuft of white on the tip of her tail!
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Portraits and sketches

I discovered a bundle of sketches which had been packed away in a trunk, while we moved across the country on my husband’s postings! They are in a bad shape – so I thought I’d scan and preserve them before the brittle paper disintegrates totally!
This is sketch of my brother – I’ve always loved doing profiles! My school notebook would be full of profiles of classmates – mostly done in 10 to 15 minutes!

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And here is a pencil drawing of a mother with a baby, undated – probably 1978 or 1979. This is likely to have been copied from a magazine…

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I decided to teach myself to paint from a book – this is water colour wash – 1970 thereabouts!

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Here is another 10 minute sketch – of my mother in law while she meditated

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