by Nick | Apr 23, 2020 | Charcoal, Pen, Pen & Wash, Pencil, Walk, Watercolour
Walking along the Otter Estuary is one of my favourite walks in the area. Over the years I have sat and sketched several different views along the route. At this time of ‘lockdown’ this is my attempt to describe and illustrate this beautiful short walk. So...
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 | Feb 24, 2019 | Watercolour
Out sketching with my little lad again and as last time we are in the woods, sketching trees. This time on Woodbury Common. This is my sketch, we didn’t have too long, so I tried to capture an impression of the light and shadows across the clearing, with the light...
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 | Jan 15, 2019 | Pen, Pencil
My son and I have come to Exeter’s marvellous RAMM (Royal Albert Memorial Museum – which is free! Though, of course, we did give a donation. Which seems only reasonable). With the intention of sketching some of the exhibits. As he would like some practice...
