The Waiting Game

My husband calls this "Come on Guv" !! Composed for the ADNW January Challenge.

Black gel pen on wc paper.
7''x10''

Draped Cloth

                                      

                               For this month's Rookie Painter challenge I did a preliminary sketch, for a pastel painting. I liked the result and decided to post it.   2H graphite pencil on white Bristol Board. 8"x12"   

ADNW November Challenge

This was sketched for  ADNW, with a black gel pen, which unfortunately turned out to be water soluble. I had planned for it to be pen and coloured wash, but it would have turned muddy.

9"x7"

Lis's Cat Phoebe

This is the first black cat that I have painted in any medium. I used Pitt pastel pencils on anthracite Pastelmat. To obtain a rich black, I under painted the darkest fur with prussian blue, then I used black and various greys, pale blue and white to model it.
6"x7"

VASE

This was a sketch for the  Paint and Draw Challenge no.24

Black gel pen on heavy, rough paper.

10"x7"

SILHOUETTE

I liked the girl's profile taken from the current A Day Not Wasted challenge. I drew it with a variety of white coloured pencils on black Canford paper. It looks brighter than my actual drawing, because I couldn't produce a decent black with a straight forward scan! The paper was rather furry to work on, I prefer a smoother paper for CP work. I worked with a reversed image because strangely I find it a lot easier if the person, or animal for that matter, is looking to the left! I wonder if other artists suffer from this quirk? I notice I've signed it 2001. Wishful thinking, perhaps?
5"x 8"

Wooden Door (detail)

This is for the Paint and Draw Challenge September challenge. The wood was brushed on with coloured inks and then the grain was drawn with various sizes of black and sepia gel pens, on paper. 

8"x6"