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 later we were to be found sketching in the trees around Fernworthy Reservoir. The above sketch was a base wash of watercolour, then working over the top with a black watercolour...
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 strange 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 park your car things are still...
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...
