Sketch book Friday..

Happy Friday!! Today is sketchbook day yippee! :
here it is, can you guess where i was?

Bethnal Green tube how I love thee!

So today being Thursday it means its visual research day here at esthercoombs, and I’ve got a bit of a cracker for you today.. Bethnal Green tube! Look on in awe at it's classic styling and wonderful orange tiles..

A fiction drawing project.

Here’s Wednesdays story post: the highlight of my week created in partnership with Julia Green, fiction writer extraordinaire. We will be posting fiction and drawing together inspired by each others work, I draw, she writes, I draw in response so on and so forth. Enjoy.

While her grandmother slept, Martina stood out on the balcony and peered at the fruit stand below. Even from three floors up, she could see that the pears and apples were pockmarked and bruised. The melons were beginning to ooze and the bananas were the wrong shade of brown. She wondered who would pay for such things.

The man who ran the fruit stand always sat to its left, in a brown folding chair she saw him unfold very early in the morning when he arrived. Every day he left by mid-afternoon, so Martina, who was only able to get out for a few hours in the evening when Mrs. Dax, the next-door neighbor, could watch Nana, had never seen his face. She knew only the top of his head, the tawny circle of bare freckled scalp and the black and gray halo of hair surrounding it. And she saw his hands, also freckled, which held the newspaper at the beginning of the day and rested calmly in his lap afterward, their stasis interrupted occasionally, when some passerby pressed money into his hand in exchange for a bag of fruit.

When the fruit man sold nothing, did nothing, moved so little she wondered if he’d expired, Martina had to shift her gaze to the traffic light on the corner, staring at the green, yellow, red till her vision was splotchy and dizzying. But on the day that he looked up, searching the clouds for some definitive sign that the rain was on its way, Martina was staring right at him, right at the bald head she’d been secretly watching for three months. When he waved, she stared for a second, seeing from the corner of her eye that the light was red, and then ran back into the apartment where Nana was lightly snoring on the sofa, her nightgown bunched up, revealing her wrinkled knees.

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The Gretta Drawing

Tuesday is drawing day, so today here's a drawing I did on commission for a family who had lost a beloved pet. I drew this from a photograph and I'm please to say they loved the likeness. What do you think?

Monday morning etsy loving

It's Monday and on my calendar of blog events I believe that means it's Monday morning etsy loving time...and this is a doozie!
This work is by Susan Graham - http://www.sugarsusan.etsy.com...and its just amazing, drawing in wire is difficult to say the least but Susan makes it look effortless and really captures the art of a line drawing!.. Heres to etsy loving monday mornings and Susan Graham.. here's Crazy Hawk Flying

http://www.susangrahamart.com/

So friday got skipped, and heres 2 sketches to make up for it..

Friday is sketch book day:
but this Friday was a train ride and an office and it left little time for drawing so here's two little sketches to make up for it.
From my sketch book to your screen...
Hope you like...

The huge rubbish cart from Chicago O'Hare airport 2008.
I was super tired and sad to go and all there was to draw was rubbish..

and this needs little explanation--it's tea cups, a great shape to sketch...yum.

So this was christmas.. Welcome to to 2009..

So with the fireworks on the eye bigger than ever, so it was 2009 and the beginning of my drawing diary.

This blog will be dedicated to my pursuit to draw every day, well hopefully everyday.
Each day of the week i want to look at drawing in a new way, with help from a few friends and the world wide web I'd like to get people thinking about drawing.

Friday will be my blogs visual research day of the week.

Normally before drawing, for me,
becomes what every university tutor likes to call 'visual research' and what most of us non professors call looking at interesting stuff!

So in a ode to the winter of 2008 which is slowly being left behind us (the shortest day has been and gone..) here are a few pics I like..

Frosty berries.
(on a stone wall of the beautiful house of a family member)

A gingerbread tree decoration I made this Christmas
(I'm using made loosely here as i just did the icing, but don't tell anyone..)

A frosty drive home on new years eve
(everything was so icy it look like someone has scattered icing sugar over the countryside.)

The bright read Canadian thermal all in one i found a charity shop for £7.( i had to have it!)

So something to look at for today, Friday the day i like to take note of brilliant inspiring stuff in the world!