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March 2020 - Daily(ish) sketches - all welcome
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Jim I like your gentle Annunciation sketch, very recognisable as yours.
Lew, your blue faces are very good, and I like the half face fella at the bottom looking as if he’s standing on tiptoe to peep over the edge of the paper!
Dixie, your trees are delicate and lovely, and they shouldn’t be green at this time of year, so very apt. As Sylvia says they are beginning to show a bit of life.
I was checking the weather forecast earlier, so came up with this ‘out for a walk, ready for anything’.
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Would be good if we got as many pages this month but with better weather (hopefully!!!) people may have less time to sketch/spend online.
These sketches are so good Lew -the combination of imagination and skill involved always impresses me. I really don't know you how can do faces and figures from your imagination - I had to do it for an exam at school, and I was abysmal - also tried today but not posting them!
That watercolour sketch is lovely Dixie - very atmospheric - and I think the purple works well.
Tessa, I do love your imaginative figure sketches too - that is so good for the weather forecast these days - though if it was up here today the umbrella would be inside out or blowing away! So well drawn.
After trying to do portraits from my imagination, like Lew, I gave up and drew my husband again - not flattering!
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by Margaret Nisbet
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Thought I' just pop in while I'm on late "lunch break". 
Great starts, Jim, Lew,Paul, Tessa and Margaret! I've challenged myself to do a painting of Freddie and his cactus, reflected in the window - I was partly thinking of Hockney and the figure at the side of the swimming pool ( make sense?. This is a very rough plan I've drawn, now I'm off upstairs to start. Sorry, forgot to edit and save.
Great starts, Jim, Lew,Paul, Tessa and Margaret! I've challenged myself to do a painting of Freddie and his cactus, reflected in the window - I was partly thinking of Hockney and the figure at the side of the swimming pool ( make sense?. This is a very rough plan I've drawn, now I'm off upstairs to start. Sorry, forgot to edit and save.Edited
by Marjorie Firth
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March is up and running at a gallop, lots of different stuff. Yes, I get the Hockey angle, Marjorie...makes perfect sense...looking forward to the finished painting. Love your drawing of your husband, Margaret, very stylish. I too have heard that husbands can be useful, when I've dusted the aspidistra, shaved the cat, ironed the front room carpet, re-hung the curtains, burnt the dinner, and adjusted our cattywampus shelves...I'll do some drawing.
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I've been itching to join one of these monthly challenges as I really need to improve my sketching. Loving what's been posted so far. I'm way behind the curve, but my excuse is moving house. Almost settled now, so no more excuses. Here is a very quick sketch (I'm so impatient when sketching) 
of some sheep from our window. The mountains in the far distance are actually covered in snow but I haven't captured that very well. Will try some colour next time. This done using Pitt pens.
of some sheep from our window. The mountains in the far distance are actually covered in snow but I haven't captured that very well. Will try some colour next time. This done using Pitt pens. 
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42 pages for the February edition of this thread, astonishing. I wonder how far this March version will go. It's prompted me to do some more realistic faces. I much prefer cartoon and caricature which leaves me free of bothering with reference material. I don't like copying stuff exactly, it's limiting and never feels like my work if I make a good copy. In this page of five and a half faces I've used reference pics, but changed the faces a bit, merely using the light and shade info. But I've come unstuck with the girl middle left...I made the mistake of using a very famous photo of a young girl. To make her look older, I lengthened her nose and narrowed her face. But, if you know the photo, it looks just enough like her to qualify as a bad copy. Ha ha, that'll teach me. Moral, don't use famous photos. I think it's time I hung up my hang-ups about copying.Lovely stuff already from all of you. Lewis, I admire the fact you have not just done one sketch, but many, and it is only day 1! It's fun however sketches end up looking. Using ink means that there has to be a certain freedom in the outcome. Mine is not perfect, but it is fun. I can't promise a daily sketch, but here is mine for 1st of March.It's all got a bit jumbled, I was hoping to get six faces on this A3 page, nearly made it...if nothing else, it's an economic way to use a sketchbook.
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Tessa those are great sketches. I went out today and forgot the umbrella, there would have to be on more character all drenched walking on the other side of the road. lol
Margorie loves the sketch, for a moment I was thinking your character is doing exercises with all the labels.
Audrey nice job on the sheep, good sketching. Gudrun a great sketch for the 1st March.
Margaret, you did an excellent job of your husband's sketch. He looks quite regal.
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by Sandi Vince
Quick sketch with gel pens and sharpies, for the 1 march 2020