People

life drawing class - willow charcoal

Statues outside County Hall, Cork, July '11

Dad

Abstracts

morning doodles summer 2010



sketches for possible painting

Skies

Looking east from kitchen 9.20am June11, showery - compressed charcoal. I twisted the charcoal around  in all directions then rubbed in places with a plastic eraser.

Looking north east 11.40am same morning as above June 11 - ballpoint pen. Thick heavy rolling cloud (rather sausage like) in lower middle . Was surprisingly fun to do clouds with this medium. 

Oil pastel over acrylic underpainting - imaginary, wanted to add some much needed colour to my sketchbook.

For more skies and clouds see my annidraws blog http://annidrisco-draw.blogspot.com/

Other

O'Rahilly Road - inktense blocks wet and dry  autumn '11

Bridges on Dublin - Cork road May '11

Mitchelstown - top of square

Part of derelict hospital, Western Road, Cork - ballpoint pen

Publish Post

Landscapes

River Awbeg, Doneraile Park

River Awbeg, Doneraile Park, conte crayon

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Snow covered lane to footbridge - near Kildorrery

Further along the same lane as above

Galtee mountains on murky morning

Riverbank near Kilflyn church

Fermoy Park 031110  - the strong light and shade on the sculptural shapes of the foreground bamboo bushes stopped me in my tracks and I just had to try and capture it on paper. 

trees from kitchen window - june 2010

From moving car - passenger seat of course! 

Kildorrery from Ballyenahan - snow covered landscape, sunny but freezing ,
 mid-morning., Dec '10, conte crayon

sunlight breaking through clouds - Nov

Imaginary landscape - chalks, water and coloured pencil,
 June 2010

riverbank Fermoy, Feb '11

twig in charcoal

Galtees - oil pastel - (showery) 2010

Garretstown - sea, small headland, old breakwater, blue pencil - 301210

Castle Gale and The Pinnacle from Gortnahown, Mitchelstown  Feb 11

- in traffic queue near Dunkettle roundabout, Cork feb11

Ballyhouras from Gortnahown 120311

Castle Gale from south west - along firebreak, spring 10

near Kilcruig, Castle Gale

Animals

My sister's dog - Meg asleep in basket
For once Meg was still for at least ten minutes, so I made the most of  the opportunity.

An early scribble

Fleeting sketches of swans on River Blackwater, Fermoy

Reggie Feb '11 charcoal

soft pastel

conte crayon and pastel pencil

gel pen

pencil

pencil

oil pastel

oil pastel

pencil

chalk pastel

oil pastel and pencil

oil pastel

ballpoint

pencil

pencil

coloured pencil

Above - more quick sketches of Reggie in different media. Doing this series really helped improve my confidence in sketching cats.

crows in park