Sketchbook — Alexa Loy

2020 - 2O23 SKETCHBOOK & STUDIO

Drawing from observation and some added imagination.

My daughter is a shell collector :)

Kettles Yard imagination

Drawing the view over St Ives harbour

Windows are the perfect easel...

Herts Open Studios 2023

In my happy place :)

Gorran Haven, Cornwall

Porthmeor painting in studio

Elmely Nature Reserve

Work in Progress : Rooftops of St Ives

Still Life Collage

Studio : Painting my 40th birthday flowers

oil painting prep : feeling of being on the cliff atZennor, Cornwall

Studio view

Charcoal portrait

Reflection : zoom life drawing

Hollow Lane, bottom of Windmill, you know, by the Exchange Building

Yoshie : 10 minute portrait

illustration : The Orange, By Wendy Cope

Over the fields : Grays Lane, Hitchin

Drawing materials I love

Notes from my studio

Notes from the pool

Notes from the pool

Notes from Hitchin Outdoor Pool

Notes from the pool

Notes from the pool (Zakynthos)

Nan and Grandad, bakers shop

Hitchin Draw More

A still life : things I love from my studio

Line drawing at Porthmeor

Neon Gorran Haven

Monstera

Peony season...

Monstera : I kept it alive for 7 years

From observation : money plant

Chrysanthemums, 2022

Spacewalk

Gorran Haven, the quay

A quick drawing at Brixham Harbour

My love for fishing boats never ends.

Cornish fishing boat and a cuppa

Drawing in Mevagissey harbour

Notes from the backstreets of St Ives

Rooftops of St Ives

Things I drew in bed when I had covid (St Ives)

Things I drew in bed when I had covid (St Ives)

Things I drew in bed when I had covid (St Ives)

My daughter asleep on the sofa, odd socks.

St Pancras : People moving through

Dog on a sofa, a colour study

Oughtonhead, Hitchin

Zoom life drawing, Trixie Divine (greens)

Zoom life drawing, Trixie Divine (blues)

Zoom life drawing, Oct 21

An old page about St Ives

A birthday girl in a busy cafe.

Studio light swoon

Sidmouth erosion, Jan 2022

Sidmouth, Jacobs Ladder beach, Jan 22

Notes from Sidmouth

Draw in the Rain, notes from Sidmouth

Dairy Cows, Chester

Dairy cows, Chester

Zoom life drawing, 2021

Trixie

On location : Hitchin station

Story Garden, Kings Cross, 2021

Collage portrait

The Island

Illustration : lockdown adventures

Borth-y-Gest, North Wales, 2021

On location : Hitchin

On location : Zennor, Cornwall

On location : Whitby, through a rainy window

Abstracting patterns on the footpath

Dreaming of Cornwall during lockdown

From memory : the island

From memory : Gorran Haven

Observational : money plant

Milk and jug still life , 2020

Times tables practice after dinner

Good Ship Illustration (tiny things)

Christmas decs treasure

Sick day - he watches films, I draw

Astronaut mini narrative

An orange for supper

Me drawing them drawing : time together at the table

Studio masking tape light

An old toy robot

Journal

Andrea

Abstract

St Ives Rooftops

Hitchin Draw More

Dog on wheels