For the final sketching session for now (I may try to revive it in September!) the largest group of scribblers and daubers to date gathered on Zoom to ride out across the prairie and confront the perils of THE WILD WEST! So saddle up, pardners and let's ride!
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| Opening up those wide western vistas is Andrea Salzman with this gorgeous watercolour landscape. There's GOLD in them that hills! |
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| Anna Lindenberger used the wonderful computer game Red Dead Redemption 2 as her inspiration for these two fantastic paintings. The lone rider silhouetted against the sunset is a popular romantic image of the wild west as we will see again later. Gorgeous! |
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| Annalisa Renee (who has been taking part in these sessions since the first one with just three of us- Annalisa, her daughter Mimi and me!) has continued to make these lovely delicate pencil drawings with a white pen for highlights on the Cheyenne squaw. |
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| My fabulous friend Anna K Lange over there in Poland did this rather complicated image on the left in the hour then did a number on it later to give us this wonderfully coloured version. Let's FaceTime soon, Shrimp! |
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| The first offering from the Moroccan twins Khawla and Somaya is another romantic lone rider against the sunset by Khawla Sdour. I love the little details she's picked out on the saddle and his back. Wonderful! |
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| And now a surprise entry from newbie- Letitia Oggero who I've been sketching with a few times. She's an amazing oil painter and now she's mucking about with digital drawing on her iPad. Here's her somewhat political take on The Wild West. Nice one, Leti! |
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| My old pal and co-writer on the animation project we're involved in (Shhh! It's secret!) Martin Ansell joined us for the last five minutes of our lively session. (He's been weeding! He says!) and dug out a drawing he did a while ago that vaguely fits the theme- A bird in the sky is asking the mono-toothed Mexican. "Do you know the way to San Jose?" |
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| My take on the wild west is the famous young outlaw-Henry McCarty- better known as Billy the Kid who shot and killed eight men before being killed himself at the tender age of 21! |
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| My niece Marina Renee-Cemmick was on a train during the live session but did she let that stop her drawing another masterpiece? No sirreeeeee! Fabulous work Mimi! |
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| My good friend Sarah Chase (nee Kelly) was able to join us again from drunken Brighton where she once again demonstrated what fabulous results you can get from a minimal range of colours! Beautiful! |
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| The second contribution all the way from Morocco is by the other twin sister- Somaya Sdour with his lovely drawing of a cowgirl. She didn't say who it was and I know for a fact that Calamity Jane was nowhere near that pretty so we can only guess! If it's an actress in a film it could possibly be Brie Larson. Or maybe Uma Therman in Even Cowgirls get the Blues! Am I warm, Somaya? |
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| The subject of the Wild West wouldn't be complete without the greatest cowboy of them all (forget John Wayne!)- Clint Eastwood drawn here beautifully by Emily Woolf of Worthing! (The Wolf of Worthing! Great title for a film!) |
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| Another surprising choice from Sophie Bittitta- a cartoon character! I love Yosemite Sam but he's probably known as something else in Spain like Fred Flintstone is known as Pedro Picapiedra! Great drawing, Sophie! |
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| And from our youngest scribbler on the day- Vivian Salzman who has just turned 16 (Happy birthday, Vivian!) is this great drawing of Nathan Fillian as Malcolm Reynolds the captain of the spaceship Firefly from Joss Wedon's wonderful series of the same name. If you liked The Mandalorian you'd love it! Sorry- geek speak! The Quick Draw Sketch Club is taking a breather now but I'm thinking of bringing it back in September! I'll miss you all! You're all bloody brilliant! Love and kisses and STAY SAFE! Paul xxx |
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