Last Nights Drawing. I Make These Tiny Drawings Right Before I Get Into Bed.

Last night’s drawing. I make these tiny drawings right before I get into bed.

I use a 6B pencil and any paper that’s to hand. I have to make drawing as easy as possible, especially at that time of night, so I have a pencil and paper ready on my desk all the time.

This drawing was directly inspired by a photo by @robertpallesen. It was a black and white image of coiled wires and cables hanging against a wall. When I saw it my fingers itched to draw my interpretation of it and Robert kindly gave me the go-ahead.

I rarely use any real images for my drawings because I find it daunting and inhibiting but when I do, I spend a few minutes looking at the image and absorbing it, as a whole and zoomed in to smaller areas. Then I put the image out of sight and draw the ‘feel’ of the image from memory. Working this way opens a portal to my subconscious and removes the pressure of re-producing a realistic copy.

Mother Nature is beautiful even on a dreary January day.

It was cold and drizzly but after hours of sitting at the computer I had to get outdoors. I yomped up a hill to get warm and at the top, with heaving lungs and hammering heart, saw a puddle with exquisite reflections.

A small, abstract pencil drawing. I draw these late at night just before I get into bed.

I never know what I’m going to draw. I simply make a mark and see what happens. This looks to me a bit like a fossil… or maggots having a feast!

Today's pencil drawing.

The tiny drawings I do last thing at night are the equivalent of working in a sketchbook.

Daytime drawings like this one have more time and space to grow.

The paper is approx A6, twice the size of my nighttime drawings.

Gorgeous clouds perfect for painting with Payne's Grey.