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 | Feb 19, 2019 | Pen, Pencil, Watercolour
The Dark Woods 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,...
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! This sketch is from our lunch stop on Chinkwell Tor looking across to Hound Tor. My son is also sat beside me sketching away ‘with his dear old Dad.’ There are Skylarks...
by Nick | Dec 2, 2017 | Pencil, Watercolour
I’ve two sketches for you today. The above watercolour is Chinkwell and Honeybag Tors from halfway up Hamel Downs. 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...
by Nick | Nov 24, 2017 | Pen
This sketch is where we had our lunch in the steep, boulder-strewn woods below Sharpitor. A very atmospheric place. Sketched with a dip pen and bottle of ink, A4’ish. A lovely day spent on one of our favourite Dartmoor walks – Lustleigh to Hunter’s...
