Started at Redland Green Fair, with the intention of sketching the proceedings, but it was too busy... The pollen from the trees had me choking, sneezing and coughing, so I moved on to catch the RWA Robert Lenkiewicz exhibition again, this time armed with pencils and paper.
I wanted to examine how he represents eyes. I started with 'Richard Holding William Blake's Death mask' (2002).
I worked for a long while trying to reproduce the tones in graphite, but there is something not quite right with it. I still maintain that when you produce a 2D image of a 2D original, it's going to look flat.
I moved on to the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery - they really should shake up the paintings. They've the same ones up for decades, I think. Haven't they got an archive they can delve into? Am I being naïve?
While the sun still shone, I climbed up to Brandon Hill and sketched a group preparing a barbecue (is that breaking the law?) under a tree on the slope leading to Great George Street.
Always behind people - do you recognise a pattern forming?
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