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) 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 could park at...
by Nick | Aug 30, 2018 | Pencil
A4 ~ Bamburgh Castle pencil sketch from the sand dunes. © Copyright Nick Watton. All Rights...
by Nick | Aug 30, 2018 | Watercolour
Back in England and a little south of where we were yesterday, down the coast at the magnificent Bamburgh Castle. Looking very strong and defensible – (though in 1463 the castle was surrendered to Warwick ‘The King Maker’ when he arrived with some...
by Nick | Aug 29, 2018 | Watercolour
We are on holiday in and around the Borders staying in Scotland, but have come back into England to Northumberia’s Holy Island – Lindisfarne. Crossing the causeway at about 9.30am. It being school holidays and a lovely sunny day, lots of other people are...
