by Nick | Oct 22, 2020 | Pencil Drawing, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Bystock Pools Bystock Pools is a Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve. It has a range of habitats, with heathland, patches of woodland, a meadow and a lily pad filled lake. It is also part of and bordered by the Pebblebed Heaths. Creating a stunning place to visit....
by Nick | Jul 23, 2020 | Oil Paintings, Pen & Wash Sketching, Pen Drawing/Sketching, Pencil Drawing, Watercolour paintings & sketches
The Exe EstuaryPainting and drawing around the Exe Estuary. In this post, there is a selection of my sketches, drawings and paintings from around the Exe Estuary. With some of my favourite spots to go. I have walked, cycled, sailed and kayaked around the Exe Estuary....
by Nick | Aug 8, 2019 | Charcoal Drawings, Pen & Wash Sketching, Pen Drawing/Sketching, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Exmouth Beach Exmouth is said to be the oldest holiday resort in Devon, becoming established in the 1700’s. When the wealthy would come to recuperate in the ‘medicinal salt waters’, which was then fashionable. With the coming of the railway to...
by Nick | Aug 7, 2019 | Pen & Wash Sketching, Pen Drawing/Sketching, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Back to Exmouth Beach Sketching again on Exmouth beach. Generally I prefer the quieter Orcombe Point end of the beach. Or when it’s low tide I also like to walk around Orcombe Point and along the beach that joins to Sandy Bay. Around Triassic Rock My little boy...
by Nick | Sep 16, 2016 | Hints & Tips for Painting & Drawing, Pen & Wash Sketching, Pencil Drawing, Watercolour paintings & sketches
I had a very enjoyable evening last night with the Exmouth Art Group, giving them a talk and several demo’s about ‘sketching’. I tried to fit as many of my sketching techniques as I could into the time allowed. So I was working very quickly with not...
by Nick | Jul 23, 2014 | Watercolour paintings & sketches
Sketching Sketching at A la Ronde. These two watercolour sketches were done at different times of the year. Hence, the different state of the foliage in the garden. I have just used a small A5, Daler-Rowney Yellow & Red cartridge pad, with my Winsor & Newton...
