Between the 15th
and 18th of April I stayed with my fiancé and his family, where I did
a series of sketches from life of their two new West Highland Terrier puppies.
Four of these sketches are shown above. On the 19th of April I went
to the Veronese exhibition at the National Gallery in London, followed by a
visit to the National Portrait Gallery. On the 20th and 21st
I stayed with my family where I drew the family’s pets from life; two sketches
of our Brazilian Salmon Pink Bird-eating Tarantula are shown beneath the puppy
drawings, and the two beneath these are of our Chilean Rose Tarantula. I was
able to make a lot of sketches of our tarantulas but haven’t been as lucky with
our snakes as one of them, a boa constrictor which is shown in a sketch above, has
hidden himself away for most of my visit and our corn snake has been
permanently on the move. I did a quick sketch of my mum from life on the 21st,
which can be seen above, and yesterday I returned to the National Gallery and
National Portrait Gallery for another look around. Whilst at the National
Gallery I drew a figure in Moretto da Brescia’s painting The Madonna and Child with Saints and Francisco de Zurbaran's painting Saint
Francis in Meditation- one of my favourite paintings. Both of my
sketches from the gallery are shown above.
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