willowstone - ruby colley and katie and the carnival

i found this picture up on the ol' interweb machine. i know i pull funny faces when i sketch but jeez look at the hack of me down there. willowstone was a lot of fun and i got well and truly mangled but managed to get 2 good sketchin sessions done too so not all a loss. the colour on my face was the colour of heartbreak. or raw pigment rubbed in off the skin from waterballoon. you never know what you may find in a field on a sunny day.

first was ruby colley. a great belfast based musician. http://www.myspace.com/rubycolley
i've seen her play a few times and really enjoy what she does. def one of the best local live acts she'd remind you a bit of zoe keating if you've heard of her. the sketchin went pretty good i'm happy to say and the gig was lovely. as soon as i saw her i legged it up to stage and got me wee pad out.

violins are fiddly things to get right

 

its been a bit of a cursed pad this one with everythin goin in it shite. the drawins are quite raw but i'm pretty chuffed with them. if i could find my tones i'd add them on to it to give a bit more depth but they are hidin today - so may well update this post when i find them.shame on me for losin me printed safmat. the shadin on these is crap but i just wanted to get enough down to suggestion - figurin that i can tone later. its these wee decisions you make at the time that keep it so excitin and leads to my facial expression. how any musician is able to concentrate when my tongues wedged out at them i don't know

next was my fave katie and the carnival.
http://www.myspace.com/katieandthecarnival
i don't know ruby but i know katie well and have worked with her doin puppets in italy and belgium. she's easily one of belfast's busiest performers and it is class being friends with her because she is just so damn good. i've tried sketchin her a few times but always kinda failed.

i think i got closer this time round. all that ale was kickin in strong. my pen broke. the rest of the day is somewhat lost. if you look close at these ones you will see i was actually rippin into the paper and alas with broken pen i went off on a spiral with no sketchin left to do. how people tolerate me i really can't fathom.

her music is great...she made me cry