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 | Feb 19, 2019 | Pen, Pencil, Watercolour
My son and his friend are doing a project about life in the ‘dark’ woods, so they wanted to come up to Dartmoor’s Ferworthy Reservoir as they remembered there being some good ‘Dark Woods’ there. After a walk on the moors, we were to be...
by Nick | Jun 11, 2018 | Watercolour
Sketching in the wonderfully shaggy Wistman’s Wood on Dartmoor, which is beloved of our young lad. The wood is a strangely eerie place with it’s twisted little oak trees, all bedecked with hanging moss’ and lichens. The trees grow over a valley side...
by Nick | May 7, 2018 | Watercolour
A scorching Bank Holiday Monday – Blimey, you don’t get many of those! We have come up for a walk on Dartmoor, near Widecombe, to the slightly quieter Bonehill Downs, Chinkwell Tor and Honeybag Tor. At the points where you can park your car things are...
by Nick | Dec 2, 2017 | Pencil, Watercolour
It’s a cold day and we have come up for a cold stroll on Dartmoor from Widecombe up and along Hamel Downs. Our little lad is thrilled to find lots of icy puddles, the ones on the top being able to hold his weight. Only one or two other hardy souls were out and...
by Nick | Nov 24, 2017 | Pen
A lovely day spent on one of our favourite Dartmoor walks – Lustleigh to Hunter’s Tor. It’s an interesting walk with lots of woods, boulders, fungi (today anyway) and a little bit of moor to explore and generally poke about in. This sketch is where...
