some tablets

I thought I'd better put something in my blog before it died of boredom and gave up on life. I've  not been able to paint at all, I'm studying a course in Renaissance art for a Humanities degree at the moment - it is fantastic and fascinating and I adore it to bits, but it is quite incredibly time consuming.

This is a sketch on a tablet ( Nexus 7) of Holbein's portrait of Sir Thomas More. I've convinced myself that by sketching the paintings I'm studying, I'll learn something about them. Sketching on a tablet is new to me, this is attempt no 2. I'm using a free sketching app, which is probably quite basic, but is easy enough to get the hang of. 

I thought this course would be all Florentine Madonnas and such, but we are also looking at Netherlandish art. This is a sketch of poor Mary Magdalene from Rogier van der Weyden's Deposition. 

She is contorted and distracted with grief - in the original anyway. I'm made her very grey. Okay, back to the books.