FOR SATU...........I DOFF MY CAP TO YOU.

Well met and well done Sylvia! I've never been very good at drawing, my own fault as I fail to apply myself to the task...however, this term my art class has been all about 'drawing' and that doesn't mean with just a pencil. We were drawing, as our tutor called it, with scissors this week. Thank you for your comment on my charcoal exercise, now that is a good way to get to grips with shapes/form, and tone. Cover your surface with a good layer of charcoal (willow) if you have it, then use a rag, putty rubber, finger anything to create the different layers of tone by taking away the charcoal. However, I don't recommend this exercise where you are reclining at the moment Sylvia, one to do when you're up on your feet again, so you can hose down! lol

Nice one Sylvia.

Well done Sylvia, now I'm tempted to try this myself. Your ellipses aren't quite right as you know or the shadow but it's a good attempt seeing as how you didn't use a lamp for the shadows. We need a tennis ball, box, cylindrical vase and lamp (see I'm thinking). I imagine it isn't easy so good for you for taking up Satu's challenge :)

Well done Sylvia and thanks for doing it! As you said it's not as easy as it looks but a good exercise to work out the different tones of the shades.

It takes me back to my A level classes - 6 weeks of drawing cardboard boxes! But I suppose the discipline has paid off! Well done for making the effort!

I enjoyed reading your bio, Sylvia. The charity work sounds so interesting. I gather from the comments you're not that mobile at the moment, is that right? Wishing you better very soon. This is a deceptively simple exercise isn't it, I think you've done a great job and probably learned loads doing it. Very tricky to get the tonal values.

Thanks everyone for commenting. It's not an easy excersise and I remember doing it sometime...over fifty years ago. But I enjoyed it more this time around. I would have liked to have set up a still life and I would have found that easier. Thanks also for good wishes for recovery... I've still got armour but am using a Zimmer frame....I actually sat on the loo for the first time in two months this morning. I'm now thinking Christmas decorations for Zimmer... streamers , baubles flashy lights.

Great job Sylvia

I've just tried this Sylvia. Not easy and you did well :)

Brilliant work Sylvia, but I will leave it to you experts. Glad to hear you can now sit comfortably on the throne ;)

lovely work .I love this drawing ,

Very good. It's interesting to see the different styles and approaches

I'll rise to this one but not for a few days as we have visitors over the weekend and time will be short - hope to do something as good as this one

Well done Sylvia. It must be very frustrating for you being out of action. I broke a bone in my foot a month after my stroke....lost my balance in the garden. I only had a soft cast and a special shoe and that was bad enough. Chin up. My eldest granddaughter has drawn a similar study at school.

Thank you Alan ,Gudrun, Michael and Ellen. Just probably if I wasn't confined to one spot I might not have done this . So little silver linings.