by Nick | May 27, 2019 | Pen, Pen & Wash, Pencil, Watercolour
Sitting up on Woodbury Castle while the little lad plays with his mate. This sketch is of the huge earthen banks of the hillfort with all the tall beech trees growing in and around it with a dappled light breaking through the canopy. This sketch started out quite...
by Nick | Mar 24, 2019 | Pen, Walk, Watercolour
Distance: about five and a half miles Using OS Explorer Map – Dartmoor (OL 28) Castle Drogo Being National Trust members we were able to park in the Castle Drogo car park (near Drewsteignton in the North West of Dartmoor) and head off from there. Though you...
by Nick | Aug 30, 2018 | Pencil
Lindisfarne We are on holiday in and around the Borders, staying in Scotland but have come back into England to Northumbria’s Holy Island – Lindisfarne. Crossing the causeway at about 9.30 am. As it’s a school holiday and a lovely sunny day, lots of other...
by Nick | Apr 10, 2014 | Pen & Wash, Watercolour
Corfe Castle The above sketch is looking up at the castle from near the entrance. Sitting in the grounds of the Castle ~ watercolour ~ A5. Whilst camping at Corfe it would have been rude not to have gone to the Castle. Owned by the National Trust. In fact, we had to...
by Nick | Sep 14, 2007 | Pen, Pen & Wash, Pencil, Watercolour
Cromwell Castle A5 ~ Pencil. Waiting for the others Dad and I sat sketching together. Drawing the view of Cromwell Castle from the hill above, with Hangman Island and Bryher beyond. Over to Bryher Above is an A5 sketch from the inter-island ferry as we crossed the...
