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Posts Tagged ‘watercolour’
Sunday Sketchblog #170
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, chinese new year, dog silhouette, drawing, painting, shiba inu, shiba inu silhouette, sketch, watercolour, year of the dog on February 18, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Sunday Sketchblog #167
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, birthday, drawing, graffiti, inktense, painting, sketch, street art, watercolour on January 14, 2018| Leave a Comment »
A special sketchblog post today. This is a painting I gave to my friends Ginge and Ellie this weekend in celebration of their birthdays (turning a respective 50 and 40). Ginge is a friend who shares my appreciation of street art and often sends me photos of the interesting pieces he spots.
Happy birthday you two!
Sunday Sketchblog #166
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, aslan, bettys of harrogate, diary, english heritage, grewelthorpe, hackfall, henry moore, house of the trembling madness, how stean gorge, narnia, painting, pen and ink, robin hood's bay, sketch, sketch diary, sketchblog, the ship inn, the shop that must not be named, watercolour, whip-ma-whop-ma-gate, whitby, whitby abbey, york, Yorkshire, yorkshire sculpture park on January 7, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Buckle up, it’s my holiday diary! We took a rare winter holiday and explored parts of Yorkshire, which was delightful. I hope you enjoy my ramblings.
Sunday Sketchblog #161
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, drawing, holiday, orkney, postcard, postcards, scotland, sketch, sketchbook, summer holiday, vacation, watercolor, watercolour, watercolour postcard, Yorkshire on September 24, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Today we arrived back in London after our annual jaunt to Scotland. Here are the postcards I painted in Orkney, plus one special one from Yorkshire.
Sunday Sketchblog #158 (part 2)
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, drawing, duolingo, italian, language learning, learn italian, painting, sketch, sketchblog, sketchbook, watercolour on August 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Once upon a time (three years ago, if you want me to be precise) I started trying to learn Italian. Again. I had a plan, I’d paint myself a vocabulary guide, thus neatly killing due ucelli with one stone. Alas the best laid plans of topi e uomini and all that!
I have returned to Italian once more this year, and this time I’m using DuoLingo and it’s going great. I’m 109 days in and really do feel like I’m retaining the knowledge. I did, however, add some more paintings to my vocabulary book when I first started using DuoLingo and thought I might as well pop them on here. I have vague ideas of illustrating some of the odder sentences that the app comes up with (“the penguin eats fruit” – no, no it does not!), because actually I think there’s probably a pretty funny story behind things like “the watch is in the wine” (it had to have been a hell of a party eh?).
Roses are red…
Posted in Sketchbook, tagged art, irn bru, painting, Valentine's, watercolor, watercolour on February 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I love it here!
Posted in Commissions, Sketchbook, tagged amsterdam, art, art nouveau, commission, drawing, painting, poster, watercolor, watercolour on February 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Commissions are always fun, and they’re especially interesting when they take me out of my comfort zone. At the end of January a friend asked me if I could do an art nouveau style poster of her friend. She found one she liked the look of and sent me that together with a photo of her friend, and said she wanted her ‘wreathed in bubbles’ and, if at all possible, for the phrase ‘I love it here!’ to be on there somewhere as that’s all her friend had said for her entire birthday weekend in Amsterdam.
Here’s how it went.
