Guernsey sketches

July 6, 2023 Corinne Welch

A wonderful week camping in Guernsey in mid-June - lovely to be by the sea in the sunshine from dawn til dusk, and squeezing in a few sketches here and there…

Museum drawings

May 2, 2023 Corinne Welch

Recent sketchbook drawings from museum artefacts (using Koi brush pens and Inktense pencils). Some drawings were done in situ (Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery) and some from online collections (Pitt Rivers and the Britich Museum).

Draw More May

May 6, 2022 Corinne Welch

Monoprint, water-soluble crayon and collage

Trying to get back into a daily practice of drawing this month (possibly limited to weekdays). This first week I’ve been playing with back-drawn monoprints, and - as I’m always more fond of the left behind bits - adding an additional page using leftovers each day…

Sketchbook Revival 2022

April 20, 2022 Corinne Welch

Taking Zoom portrait sketches up a notch with Carla Sondheim

A calligraphic folded book and pocket with Rachel Hazell

Even the sketchbook was made in a workshop with Sarah Matthews

Apologies for the silence on here recently - I’ve been very busy but just not blogging about it as I needed a bit of a screen break. I’ve had a lot of fun taking part in the Sketchbook Revival 2022, hosted by Karen Abend. Lots of brilliant online workshops (all for free - amazing!) with a lot of inspiration for different creative approaches for filling a sketchbook.

A very BIG book of patterns

September 16, 2020 Corinne Welch

Following on from my workshop with Sarah Burns I started using rubber stamps to make new pattern experiments. After building up a pile of paper, I realised that it would be more useful to have one place to work on patterns so that I can see them side-by-side. So I treated myself to a giant scrapbook (decorated with my Alpha-set) and started stamping. It’s good to be able compare patterns, seeing them side-by-side so I can decide which ones have potential and which ones are duffers. It’s quite an addictive process!

How did it get to be March already?!

March 6, 2020 Corinne Welch

one simple stamp, two very different patterns

Oh dear, oh dear. This blog has been very neglected so far in 2020… it’s been a very busy start to the year and this has been one of the casualties of a lack of time. I’ll add some posts over the next week with an update of various things I’ve been working on. As a starter here’s some pages from a lovely coptic bound sketchbook with different size pages and papers that was a birthday gift from Eva Hejdstrom last year. I’ve decided to use it to have a play and create various rubber stamp patterns (mostly from hand carved stamps I’ve accumulated from other projects over the past few years). There’s no end result in mind, just the fun of stamping, but I’ll also hopefully be left with a useful pattern resource once the book is full up.

Collage scraps

April 16, 2019 Corinne Welch

Finally getting back to working in my sketchbook… collaging scraps from monoprints.

A rare treat

August 11, 2017 Corinne Welch

Lucky enough to see one of these rather special chaps last week when one flew into my neighbour's kitchen - amazing colours, and a real treat to see one up close.

You take the high road...

July 3, 2017 Corinne Welch

A week in the Scottish Highlands… my absolutely most favourite place to be in the whole wide world. Lots of time for walking, reading, sketching and really important things like painting on shells.

Sketchbook glimpses

February 28, 2017 Corinne Welch

Since June last year I've been keeping a regular sketchbook - I've enjoyed working on a small scale (A6) and without the intention of anything being preparatory. Quite liberating, and the first time I've done this since before I started my MA in 2011. When left to my own devices, I revert to pattern and collage, and it's been fun to start painting again. Some pages above from the past few weeks...