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a sketch in time skip to main skip to sidebar saturday november 22 2025 women for change shutdown i wasn t sure whether i d find the group i was looking for at the johannesburg botanical gardens yesterday morning hoping there might be a dozen or so figures gathered somewhere dressed in black and purple as was i but as i got closer to the park i felt quite emotional to see people arriving from all directions in their hundreds this just one of many gathering points around the country to support the nationwide shutdown and protest against gender based violence and femicide and women for change s demand that the awful scourge of violence in this country be declared a national disaster which indeed it was later right on the eve of the g20 summit talks after some speeches and singing senzenina meaning what have we done we were asked to lie down while many names of victims of domestic and gender based violence were read out another moving fifteen minutes and difficult to draw at that angle so i finished it at home there is much to say about this but this day was surely a turning point i really hope so posted by cathy gatland at 4 11 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday october 23 2025 jacaranda time it s that time of year again my last post before the looong silence was done in jacaranda season and the monties thursday sketching group returned to villa arcadia today where the gardens and avenues are shrouded in purple i brought my hahnemühle sketchbook which i m trying to stick to watercolour only for but did bring out a lilac wax crayon to attempt to reproduce the soft haziness and the almost neon glow of the blossoms in the shadows beautiful spring sunshine beautiful buildings rocks jacarandas company beautiful morning altogether posted by cathy gatland at 6 12 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday october 21 2025 it s about time well well well hello i m not sure i ll keep this up but my blog has been such a good record and resource for of my life and art that i m going to try and get this going again instagram has taken over as an easy and quick way of posting work but i think i ll try and synch the two probably just repeat most things but perhaps embellishing further on here occasionally if i can remember how to do this right now i m about to show some of my work in an exhibition called it s about time an appropriate title in many more ways than one with a group of friends who have been meeting for the last eight years or so gathering in each other s homes and online discussing showing encouraging and accompanying each other through the joys doubts frustrations and triumphs of art making in all our different ways through the isolation of covid and beyond this is an invitation then if there s anyone still out there and a revival of a sketch in time posted by cathy gatland at 2 02 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogging exhibition studio group monday november 2 2020 jacaranda time again i m glad i got at least one little sketch of them in as over the weekend after a week of scorching heat we had tumultuous storms of wind rain and hail that stripped many of the blossoms off their stalks hopefully more will bud i haven t had my fill yet of the purple glory time and the end of inktober i didn t much like following the prompts but sometimes they led to revelations and discoveries below are some of the drawings i did enjoy thinking of feeling the word to form the shape of the action like throw top left i think this was a stick i dipped in coffee and swirled around then dropped ink into the wet marks and finished off with some descriptive lines the next one coral almost made itself the natural movement of ink marks on a wet or damp surface formed coral like textures and a fun quick chef after a carefully illustrated one was rejected the bottom three were more personal float from a photo of my daughter though it doesn t look like her water and its distortions are always interesting as are shoes especially well used battered old takkies and hide my little 3 year old granddaughter s idea of how to do it smiley face with hearts emoticon here i m trying to figure out what it is i really love to do as time runs away at an ever faster rate and i don t want to waste any doing stuff i don t love any more so inktober was good for that at least some days were diamonds and some days were stones posted by cathy gatland at 2 57 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels inktober jacaranda pen and ink sketchbook urban sketchers watercolour wednesday october 7 2020 inktober 2020 where has this year gone into a blur of world changing life changing upheavals and restrictions time to paint draw crochet bake read and think and think too much but it s october inktober again it s become a marker of time slightly annoying so much work but a serious threat of fomo if i don t once again haul out the inks pens and brushes and just do this thing i really needed to find a way to make it enjoyable engrossing surprising otherwise it s just a slog and takes up too much time last year i found that some tiny freestyle ink and coffee doodles i did and developed into images kind of like seeing pictures in clouds led to unexpected happy results far preferable to my more laboured responses to the prompts so this year i m doing it slightly more intentionally thinking vaguely of what i want the blobs and splashes to form but trying not to control them too much until sometimes i do above are the first six days following the prompts left to right are fish wisp bulk radio blade and rodent some of the coffee and ink splashy beginnings below the top two with throw and fancy in mind the bottom two just random hoping they ll become something i really love the interactions of coffee and water and ink thinking i should just leave some of these as they are but that seems like a cop out posted by cathy gatland at 11 23 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels doodles inktober pen and ink tuesday september 15 2020 watercolour monotypes a first attempt at printing monotypes from watercolour painted on yupo years ago rhonda carpenter incredibly kindly sent me a sample of yupo to try when i couldn t find it here in johannesburg i eventually found and bought a pack and am finally experimenting i like the slippery quality of watercolours on this surface and the clear bright tones you can get but wanted to try monotypes so sacrificed the original paintings on the left of each set my first painting of random objects on my studio windowsill was very fast loose and drippy impatient to get a print made i didn t dampen the watercolour paper enough to get a good print from the original but like what was left behind on the yupo the second painting was more detailed and careful starting to enjoy making compositions from these little objets quite unpredictable results in the print the line i drew around the seedpod came out much darker than i d planned i d wet the paper for longer but still didn t pick up as much paint as i d hoped the doctored cellphone pic is deceptive the third attempt was more successful soaked the watercolour paper for longer and the print was almost darker in parts than the original if you want to try paint your image onto clean grease free yupo with watercolour make sure it has plenty of pigment to water ratio while it s drying soak some smooth watercolour paper i used hot press 300 gsm in water for about 10 minutes blot with a clean towel or paper towel to remove excess water and place over the image rub well all over the paper with the back of a spoon or other smooth object i used a pot of handcream with rounded edges remove and hopefully there will be a monotype i haven t perfected the process and probably won t without a proper press but quite excited at the results posted by cathy gatland at 2 26 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels monotype studio watercolour yupo sunday july 5 2020 round and round the garden i got so behind posting paintings done on the 30x30directwatercolor challenge i m just dumping a whole bunch here otherwise i ll never catch up one or two intersected with other online challenges virginia hein s usktalk about applying explosive colour before painting just enough of the image to make it recognisable the chairs and international sketch a chicken week irresistible and suhita shirodkar s start with what if what if i looked through a glass of water these aren t all of them just some on the home and garden theme which is of course the most available subject while under lockdown i didn t manage 30 but was happy to have kept up quite a steady pace i felt like i was getting a grip on how to get started and use more expressive less fussy brushstrokes as i went along the first ones are at the bottom more or less more recent ones towards the top july is international watercolour month apparently so i think i must carry on while i m on a roll trying to curb my natural tendency to switch to something different just as i feel i m making progress posted by cathy gatland at 5 05 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 30x30directwatercolor chickens emmarentia dam garden home johannesburg painting shadows uskathome washing line watercolour winter older posts home subscribe to comments atom search this blog subscribe to a sketch in time posts atom posts all comments atom all comments cathy gatland johannesburg south africa sketching watercolours oil painting sketch and travel journals a hotchpotch of what s on my right brain right now welcome email me at cathy asketchintime gmail com view my complete profile the art of urban sketching information inspiration lines and colors a blog about drawing 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