by Nick | Apr 23, 2020 | Charcoal Drawings, Pen & Wash Sketching, Pen Drawing/Sketching, Pencil Drawing, Walks, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Walking and sketching along the Otter Estuary and coast path. This is one of my favourite walks in the area. Over the years I have sat and sketched several different views along the route. During this time of ‘lockdown’, this is my attempt to describe and...
by Nick | Jun 30, 2019 | Pen Drawing/Sketching, Watercolour paintings & sketches
The Otter Estuary The River Otter’s source is just in Somerset in the Blackdown Hills. It travels 27 miles through East Devon to reach the sea, just east of Budleigh Salterton. The Otter Estuary is a 57-acre Nature Reserve and SSSI. It’s habitat consists...
by Nick | Feb 17, 2012 | Pen & Wash Sketching, Pen Drawing/Sketching, Watercolour paintings & sketches
The Lunchtime Sketches Sketches around East devon. Using different mediums, but all are A5 and I’m sat in the car. This is a period when the only way to get my baby son to have an afternoon nap, was to put him in the car and drive. So I would give him his lunch,...
by Nick | May 5, 2010 | Pen Drawing/Sketching, Pencil Drawing
Nuthatches Sitta europaea I’m sketching the Nuthatches in Otterton Mill car park, as part of my ‘Lunchtime Sketches’ series. Whilst I was parked up here sketching the bridge (see below), I noticed that there were Nutches in one of the nestboxes. The...
