The sometimes ugly face of Britain!

Only Joking :-) In the run up to London 2012 I thought I would do a couple of "British" pictures. This one of a bulldog stood in front of a Union Jack was done using watercolours and a standard HB pencil.

The Bulldog has a lifespan of 8-12 Years and there are characterised by their squashed in face. Unfortunately the British Bulldog suffered, when people started to use selective breeding to create Bulldogs with super squashed in faces, this caused the Bulldog to suffer nasal and severe breathing problems!

Day 1 Opening Ceremony

Ahead of tonight's big event, this is the first of my olympic picture a day challenge. This particular picture is pen and watercolour, hope you like it!

The Start of the Olympics!

Today we start off with the womens football at Cardiff also the other football stadiums across the UK. Feel free to leave comments at the bottom of each, daily post across the Olympics about what you have been doing, events that you have watched, either on the TV or in person! Also let us know if you are seeing the last few days of the Olympic torch relay across London.

My Olympic Plan

And no I'm not in the Olympics! Every day during the Olympics (27th July-12th August) I will attempt to add some kind of art work capturing each day of the Olympics, along with the artwork I wi try to add information, hopefully to make some interesting reading:) To give you an idea of what I MIGHT do check out my page ----> where I have a day-day guide of the olympics!


Enjoy!

P.S I'd love to see some of your attempts, emailed to clairesart123@live.co.uk

Olympic Velodrome

I am in the process of doing a sketch of the Olympic velodrome which I shall be adding once it has been finished,but I thought that while you are waiting I would keep you busy with some facts about the Olympic Velodrome.

Capacity: 6,000
Event: Cycling

The Olympic stadium was designed with the help of the GB gold medallist Sir Christ Hoy. The velodrome is situated in the North of the Olympic Park. After the games the venue will form part of the VeloPark scheme along with the BMX track after the games.


Reworded information from the Official London 2012 Book

Olympic Park

In the run up to the Olympics I thought I would sketch the Olympic Park, I sketched it using a pure 6B graphite pencil (from the WHSmiths Sketching Set (half price =))) the picture was from the official London 2012 Book (also half price from WHSmiths :))