I went out sketching on Boxing day. It started raining and the resulting drips, blots and puddles helped to improve the picture as sumi ink seems to like water. Carrying the sketch book home, open and dripping was tricky, pools of dilute ink running around on the paper
Water-brush filled with Chinese sumi ink, A4
A mug of tea, drawn using a new multicolour biro with 6 colours. Blur your eyes a bit for the full effect…
Muji 6 colour biro, A6
Wood shingles and a tree next to the cafe at Skansen, the large and excellent outdoor museum in Stockholm.
Fountain pen with carbon ink, A5
The view to the North-West from the top of the Galata tower in Istanbul. It was very windy, with other visitors hats being blown down into the streets below.
Marker pen, A3
Another multi-coloured biro experiment and Every Day Matters challenge #1 “Draw a shoe”.
4 colour Bic biro, A4
Walt from ‘Breaking Bad’, paused during one of his characteristic appalled expressions as he faces/realises yet another terrible moral dilemma. Drawn from an image on the TV; a rare opportunity to get an entirely static life model, but in 2D.
Fountain pen with Lexington grey ink, Zig ‘real brush’ pens, A6
Lots of mistakes restated lines in this one; many tricky shapes and angles…
Marker pen, watercolour, A5
Nelson resting on a large coil of rope at the top of his column in Trafalgar Square, London. Sketched from a cold outdoor cafe table.
1mm Sakura Pigma pen, watercolour, A6
My plastic skull, a favourite subject, drawn with thick (2½) dip pen nib. I’m always struck by how far the cheek bone protrudes below the eye…
Dip pen, Chinese sumi ink, A5
Hilbre Island in the Dee Estuary, seen from West Kirby with the tide coming in fast, on a very windy day. The sketch was done in 2 minutes so we could get to Parkgate for a Nicholls ice-cream as soon as possible.
Fountain pen with Lexington grey ink, watercolour, A6
Mostly drawing 