Year: 2018

Boats in a harbour

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This is one of my old sketches – from many years ago – but I quite like the way that the partially abstracted washes suggest a windy day and you can imagine a windy, cold and quiet day – most people indoors or maybe in the pub!

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A watercolour sketch of Arlington Row, Bibury

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Bibury is one of the classic Cotswolds villages and Arlington Row with its water meadow and clear water stream is definitely worth a visit. This is another of my watercolour studies of this row of picturesque cottages in the village and is one of several attempts at getting a decent painting of this view – […]

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A watercolour sketch of North Cerney Church

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The North Cerney Church of All Saints is an outstanding church and dates from the 12th Century. It is set on the side of the Churn valley north of Cirencester. My view is of the western tower, with the afternoon Sun rapidly heading for the horizon.

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In the City – a view down Lombard Street, London

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An urban landscape – this one a sketchy watercolour of the view along Lombard Street in the City of London. This one is from next to one of the entrances to Bank Station on the Tube.  A lot to see in this area, with a mixture of financial institutions, historic churches, modern architecture and a […]

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Sketching on the hotel balcony, Alicante

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Unusually for this blog – a photograph – spending the siesta doing a little watercolour sketching from our hotel balcony while on holiday in Alicante, Spain.   It’s a pleasant thing to do if you can find some shade…  Sketching is better than sleep?

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