Boats and Breezes...

I made two new pieces of art this week - 'Autumn Breeze' and 'Far off Fishing Boat'. I made them both for the upcoming exhibition at the Drawing Board in Wrexham - a local community art gallery. 

'Autumn Breeze' is done in chalk pastels and coloured pencil and 'Far off Fishing Boat' is just chalk pastels. I haven't worked with chalk pastels in a while but I've noticed that one of my most popular pieces of art the last couple of years has been a simple chalk pastel and coloured pencil illustration I made called 'Sweet Nectar', so I thought I would try and replicate that success.

I really love how both of these pieces turned out. Hair is one of my favourite things to draw/paint, particularly when it's blowing in the wind, and I think this drawing with it's beautiful colours of autumn is so peaceful and dreamy you can almost hear the rustling wind. The boat in the other drawing is the same one that features in my painting 'Weather Coming In'. It was very far away from me when I photographed it (hence the title) which actually helped me be a bit looser with the details as I couldn't really make them out. 

One picture from real life and one from my imagination - a very productive week!