by Nick | Aug 8, 2019 | Charcoal Drawings, Pen & Wash Sketching, Pen Drawing/Sketching, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Exmouth Beach Exmouth is said to be the oldest holiday resort in Devon, becoming established in the 1700’s. When the wealthy would come to recuperate in the ‘medicinal salt waters’, which was then fashionable. With the coming of the railway to...
by Nick | Aug 7, 2019 | Pen & Wash Sketching, Pen Drawing/Sketching, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Back to Exmouth Beach Sketching again on Exmouth beach. Generally I prefer the quieter Orcombe Point end of the beach. Or when it’s low tide I also like to walk around Orcombe Point and along the beach that joins to Sandy Bay. Around Triassic Rock My little boy...
by Nick | Jul 28, 2019 | Pencil Drawing, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Sketches from the stunning Isle of Mull Our holiday, walking and sketching. Using watercolours mostly, but also working with pencils & a graphite stick. Using a new watercolour pad for me – Aquarelle by Clairefontaine 140lb, 24 x 30 cm. Which proved to be a...
by Nick | Jun 30, 2019 | Pen Drawing/Sketching, Watercolour paintings & sketches
The Otter Estuary The River Otter’s source is just in Somerset in the Blackdown Hills. It travels 27 miles through East Devon to reach the sea, just east of Budleigh Salterton. The Otter Estuary is a 57-acre Nature Reserve and SSSI. It’s habitat consists...
by Nick | Jun 16, 2019 | Pencil Drawing, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Mother Ivey’s Campsite Watercolour sketching at Trevose Head. We were camping down in Cornwall for the weekend. Staying at the lovely Mother Ivey’s Bay Holiday Park. Which is very well set-up and has a lovely quiet beach, just a short stroll away. We had been booked...
by Nick | Mar 24, 2019 | Pen Drawing/Sketching, Walks, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Castle Drogo This is a pleasant walk from Castle Drogo to Fingle Bridge and back again. The distance is about five and a half miles and I’m using OS Explorer Map – Dartmoor (OL 28). Also, along the way, I stop for a little sketching. Using an A5 Daler-Rowney...
