Category: Coastal

A scottish fishing village

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I haven’t been out for a while to draw or sketch – probably down to the freezing temperatures and windchill. So instead of my usual ‘Plein-Airs’ here is a sketch but of a made-up Scottish fishing village. This is not a real location, rather an excuse to indulge in drawing some fishing boats again. As […]

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Drawing Hastings Old Town

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Today I’ve been drawing from a photograph – this from a view of Hastings Old Town found on Wikimedia Commons. With the winter solstice close, the days getting darker and the weather dull and rainy, it is sometimes nice to gain a little inspiration from the web. Personally I find the elements of narrow streets, […]

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Tenby Harbour boats V

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I’ve been looking back over some of my summer holiday photos – this time of Tenby and Tenby harbour and decided to have a go at another view of the harbour. The result is this painting. Its a bit more ‘Big Sky’ and panoramic than my usual layouts and I’m not too sure that sits […]

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The Fishing Boat Maggie G at Lower Fishguard Harbour

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Here is another of my studies of boats and harbours – this time it’s the fishing boat ‘Maggie G’ at lower Fishguard harbour. This is from a summer holiday around the coast of Wales – where after a day of travelling up through the Pembrokeshire countryside from St. Davids, via Porthgain and the Strumble head, […]

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Fishing Boat PZ86 at St. Ives Harbour

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I’ve been sorting through some old photos of past trips to harbours around the UK andhaving a go at a sketch of one of the fishing boats at low tide in St. Ives harbour. This is the result. Also below is my initial sketch and first wash. It is all nothing too complicated but maybe […]

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