NEVER THROW AWAY YOUR SKETCHES

Author: BLYTHART
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NEVER THROW AWAY YOUR SKETCHES

working from old sketches ….

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Here are two pencil sketches I did sometime between 1967 and 1968, around the time I was leaving school. The Beatles had released Sergeant Pepper and the future still hadn’t happened for me. It was a happy time, when I would take my little folding stool and sit in the fresh air with my sketchbook. The coloured versions following the greyscale images below are what I drew recently from those sketches. The moral of this tale is “never throw away your sketches … they may come in useful forty years later” :)

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I am sure you will agree that it would have been a shame if I’d destroyed those little sketches.

Lynda Robinson

WOW – That is SO impressive Dave!
BLYTHART replied

oops … I wasn’t trying to impress … just to show how nothing is ever wasted.
catherine walker

wow..I agree dave..they look great..and you must be like me in that way ..never throw it away if you think it could have a use down the track a bit..good thinking and well done!
BLYTHART replied

On the rare occasions when I do throw something away, I find myself needing it a few weeks later :)
fuelthesoul

Very good point
BLYTHART replied

Thanks :)
Tom Gomez

Your amazing style will always be admired Dave …
BLYTHART replied

You say the nicest things Tom – much appreciated too.
Linda Callaghan

oh must see what I have in my cardboard box! :-D very impressive Dave..good job you hung on to them!
KazM

Glad you shared the value of saving your sketches.
My problem is the space mine take up and finding what I want when I want it (same for the scanned pics on the hard-drive)
Lynnette Shelley

cool story dave
Maureen Bloesch

Both are lovely and glad you saved them…well worth the save!
Patricia Anne ...

WOW Awsome i tossed alot of my old works i wish i didn’t
coppertrees

Great advice,wise man
andrea verstegen

Thanks for showing us these sketches Dave. It’s interesting to see Dave Edwards at the dawn of his artistic journey. Very innovative that you can got back and reinvent your earlier drawings. The lower drawing’s a knockout.
BLYTHART replied

.. if you REALLY wanted to see Dave Edwards at the start of his artistic journey you’d need to see a lovely commemorative pop-up book of the Queen’s Coronation (1953) that I ruined by scribbling over it with crayons, when I was three years old. It would probably be worth money if only I could remove the crayon marks – oh the shame of it :)
bites

How cool, thanks for sharing : )
retrocharm

Wow, it’s amazing how new life can be given to old things – even things we may not have thought were too good initially. Great stuff :)
BLYTHART replied

Never give upon anything. I’ve often reworked old sketches or even started them all over again.
Chookas

This was featured in the EEG
☼ BRAVO!! ☼ [14-07-09]
BLYTHART replied

Many thanks Chookas.
andrea verstegen

Yes, I REALLY want to see your artwork on the Queens Coronation Pop Up Book. If it’s just so I can see the book itself. Put it up on Redbubble as being the earliest piece of yours in existence. Would be funny.
BLYTHART replied

I was going to, but someone else (possibly one of our two) has alsao had a go at decorating the book. I have sent you photos by email though.
MelDavies

Wise words and wonderful works. Cheers
Aisha Zahoor

em new here…but really liked yewr work.
keep up!!