yellow hair

yellow hair, originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

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Toying with a watermark for the shop. Don't really like it.

It's funny, I find myself aiming for something different from before when drawing. I need to think about what I'm doing.

my heart's witnesses hide

I slowly continue to make these. I should probably get a move on and make more, but there's something so meditative about the process. It's tense making the initial drawing onto the prepared balsa; balsa is soft so there's an impression of the drawing on the wood as well as the graphite drawing, and errors are not really correctable in situ. I have sanded back one awful drawing when I got home once, and re-inked it for next time. But I'd rather just get it right and move on to new bit most of the time. I add all the colour and details when I'm back in the studio. This one ended up with some words because there was space at the top compositionally, and I had some bits of Browning on my desk from fiddling with the clownery, and they were catching my eye. I inked it's edges black, because I was short of white, and wondered what it would look like darker.

This one is for sale in the new Far Dot Shop.

Wear the Mask

Someone pointed me in the direction of the RedBubble site, and it seems pretty attractive with all that affordable printing of my stuff without me having to organize it. I'll need to obtain some pennies soon though to do the old quality control check and perhaps some photography...

Wear the Mask was a drawing from an All the Young Nudes night. The model wore a welding mask; props are de rigueur some nights. It's never dull to draw at the Flying Duck!

football on her shoulder

football on her shoulder, originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

Spent a lovely day setting up interestingly placed drawing shots. The etsy success emails advise getting the best photographs you can of your stuff, so I've really tried. Time will tell if this helps sales...

kneeling

kneeling, originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

I'm thinking of making this blog about drawing, and things connected to drawing. It's very much under construction at the moment, and I'm newish to blogging. I'm on flickr.

I've been making some life drawing recently at the Flying Duck's club night All the Young Nudes. It's been great to pop along for two hours, drink some peppermint tea, and draw.

This drawing is one of two that were included in an All the Young Nudes group exhibition, as part of the Space Made Live event hosted by Small Media Large, The Arthouse, 752-6 Argyle Street, Glasgow, on the 12th and 13th June 2010.