These are ‘warm-up’ drawings for something I hope to get started on next week. Although it will likely be more stylised than these drawings it will almost certainly include flora and bones of some sort.

We have a steady stream of friends visiting for a few nights at a time at the moment and my studio doubles as a guest-bedroom so I’ve been trying to avoid making too much of a mess in there – observational drawing is a perfect low-mess activity: a piece of paper and a clutch of graphite pencils (HB, H, 2H, 4H, B, 2B to be precise) is all that’s required, and assuming the light-source can be replicated it’s pretty portable too!

 

seagull skull, dry twig 'n leaves, seed pod - observational drawings
 

seagull skull  |  dry twig ‘n leaves  |  seed pod 

I raided this collection for subject matter.
For a great skull & bones collection check out that of the very talented Mr Schaff, creator of many a great album cover and embroiderer & papercutter extraordinaire!