Cynthia Barlow Marrs SGFA

Portfolio: • Sketchbook Portraits

Emmental on toast before Tennis - November 2022

Emmental on toast before tennis — a bit of colour in my little A6 sketchbook. I caught Tony as he was leaning to read a page of his magazine, cheese toast in hand.

The sky over Windsor today is low and grey. Tony’s tennis kit is black, but somehow that purple pencil leapt into my hand.

Kitchen sink sketch - April 2021

Original
Ink in Moleskine watercolour sketchbook
13cm x 20cm

Afternoon nap in a rocking chair - October 2019

I drew this scene from life in October 2019. I was with my mother in the USA on one of my twice-a-year visits to be with family. That rocking chair dates from my mother's childhood, and my mother's elder sister Doris knitted the cream-colour woollen shawl.

Original
Ink in A5 Moleskine watercolour sketchbook
19cm x 13cm

Relaxed afternoon - March 2019

March 2019

Original
Fineliner pen, brush pens and white gel pen in A6 sketchbook
14cm x 10.5cm

Dozing on the sun porch - March 2019

March 2019

Original
Graphite, finaliser pen and brush pens in A6 sketchbook
10cm x 12cm

Ola and Penny - March 2019

Memories of lively conversation in March 2016.

Original
Fineliner pen, brush pen and white gel pen in A5 sketchbook
15cm x 10.5cm

My sister contemplates the future on her birthday - March 20

March 2019

Original
Fineliner pen, brush pens and paint marker pen in A6 sketchbook
14cm x 10.5cm

B is for Bergère

Original
Pen and ink in A6 sketchbook
27cm x 10.5cm