Weekend away - Isle of Lewis - Yvonne's Sketchbook

I travelled up to Lewis on Thursday - crossing the Sound of Harris on the ferry as a foot passenger. The hottest day of the year so far! 28'C Not too much fun on a stuffy bus on a windy road but that's what happens when you cheap out... A 20 minute stop in Tarbert between buses and I decided to go for it and sit and sketch the Tarbert Stores - this was also my homework for Koosje's Week 2 class of Sketchbook Skool. I plonked myself down on the pavement and drew. For my first taste of urban sketching it wasn't too bad at all - I got very few odd looks :-)

Tarbert Stores, Isle of Harris

I'd made a very quick pencil sketch and some notes the night before leaving as we'd had a beautiful sunset at home so during a quiet time later in the evening I committed it to paper.

Sunset, South Uist

Friday and I caught the bus over to Stornoway. The big metropolis. I visited An Lanntair, the arts centre firstly for a much needed coffee and afterwards to visit the latest exhibition called Tumadh: Immersion which was bird related. I'll write a dedicated post to the exhibition as part of my coursework. I must say that it was very different and I enjoyed it very much. Time for some more urban sketching...

An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis

My friend Jane runs the Blue Pig Studio in Carloway and she did a quick workshop on sketchbook making on Saturday afternoon, it was good fun and we swapped lots of ideas.

Mini-sketchbook

I also had my other sketchbook with me and over the few days visit I did an ink drawing a day for the 75 day ink sketch challenge that i'm doing. The rules are no pencil, black or blue ink only and 75 sketches to be completed in 75 days. I chose random objects belonging to my friends.