Category Archives: urban

Blue and gold

Posted on November 13, 2019 by

Five more sketches on pre-coloured paper, with blue and golden yellow backgrounds this time, the idea being to approximate skies and Bath stone, ish. I used the same process of drawing with the juicy fude pen, and then adding the … Continue reading →

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Remembrance Sunday

Posted on November 10, 2019 by

Remembrance Sunday in beautiful autumn light at Bath Cenotaph this morning. The band playing, a vicar leading the service, wreaths being presented and the salute being taken; a distant dog barking and a toddler laughing during the two minutes silence. … Continue reading →

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Monochrome set

Posted on November 1, 2019 by

Four more experiments sketching on pre-stained paper, this time using a homemade sepia ink for the stain, leaving a white border. From the top there’s a quiet moment in The Waterstones cafe, two busy scenes near Kingsmead Square, and finally … Continue reading →

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All aboard…

Posted on October 20, 2019 by

Waiting at Bath Spa station (you can just see the ghost of a train I tried to draw that left too soon, its windows running across the centre of the sketch)… ..and en route to Shropshire. This fellow passenger was … Continue reading →

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Pre-coloured pages

Posted on October 13, 2019 by

Sorry for the lack of posts since June (!). I accidentally fell out of the social media habit, which I guess is a good thing? Anyway, here are some recent experiments with sketching on pre-inked pages (A4). I’ve always enjoyed … Continue reading →

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Waiting…

Posted on June 17, 2019 by

iPad sketches from a visit to hospital for a check-up. (I use an Apple Pencil and Paper by 53 for the drawing app as it’s fairly simple, not too many options to distract!). Further below some previous sketches of people waiting…

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…and then to France

Posted on May 10, 2019 by

A second batch of sketches from a recent trip South. First some gouache and pencil sketches on the road over the border, snow-capped Canigou dominating the landscape.Then a quiet weekday corner in Villelongue-dels-Monts, sketched in bamboo dip-pen as a gift for … Continue reading →

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