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Ink brushes
I’ve been filling water-brushes with dilute inks, creating another portable limited palette of colours that I can blend on the page. I’m using Windsor and Newton inks which are transparent and quickly become waterproof, enabling me to layer colours, building up tints, tone, … Continue reading
Posted in Bath, brush pen, grisaille, inks, kit, Lexington grey, Stantonbury, waterbrush
Tagged Bath, brush pen, colour and shape, grisaille, inks, Lexington grey, Stantonbury, water brush, waterbrush
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Cafe sketching
Helen from St Helens in Society Cafe, Bath. She got in touch through this blog as she was interested in urban sketching and having a look at the materials I use. She’s posted about her initial sketches, and it’ll be … Continue reading
Venetian cadavers
More cheery sculptures from Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice (see previous post), this time on the Giovanni Pesaro monument. These two figures are slightly hidden in the shadows, looking like coy zombies emerging from the shower. Pilot V7 pen and … Continue reading
Posted in death, Frari, monochrome, monument, sculpture, skeleton, Venice
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Naval gazing
A large eagle(?) sculpture at the Naval History Museum in Venice, a great place for sketching. Four well-lit floors filled with a vast variety of maritime objects; model ships and planes, charts, machine guns, uniforms, 3D maps old old fortresses, … Continue reading
Posted in eagle, exhibitions, museum, Naval museum, urban, Venice
Tagged animal, eagle, museum, Naval history, objects, Venice
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Bus stop view
Looking across the Grand Canal at gondolas and hotels. The view from the Salute waterbus stop in Venice at 7am. Marker pen with carbon ink, watercolour, A6
Posted in Grand canal, marker pen, Venice, water bus
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Not Casanova
One of the many extravagant and dramatic monuments in Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice. This one’s for the sculptor Canova (not Casanova, another famous Venetian) and his heart’s buried here. The monument is a large plain pyramid and the … Continue reading
In flight
Ryanair yellow on a flight to Venice. Returned to find that this blog had 20 times the usual number of visitors yesterday… Many thanks to Nina Johansson for posting about my blog on hers! Marker pen with carbon ink, water-brush … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, journeys, marker pen, monochrome, Ryanair, Venice, yellow
Tagged airplane, journeys, marker pen, Venice, yellow
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Paint-balling
My boots drying out after a muddy day paint-balling with Si, Benjy, Leo and others. Below the boots is a tiny sketch of a Dad and his son. It was the only one I managed on the day, during a … Continue reading
Vikings
More from the Stockholm National History Museum. Fountain pen with carbon ink, watercolour, A5
Night lights
A pair of night lights on the base of a grill pan, in a tent on a cold and windy night, while camping at the end of last Summer. Had to use a head-torch to do this one. Pigma 1mm pen … Continue reading
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Tagged camping, candles, night time, objects, tent
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