by Nick | Oct 27, 2020 | Pen & Wash Sketching, Pen Drawing/Sketching, Pencil Drawing, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Dartmoor Sketching around the wild, magnificent and romantic Dartmoor. It offers a wealth of subjects and habitats to sketch. With its high, windswept moorland, fast-running rivers, woodland and the granite tors, raising majestically from the landscape. The Granit was...
by Nick | Oct 26, 2020 | Charcoal Drawings, Pen Drawing/Sketching, Pencil Drawing, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Cornwall Sketching in Cornwall is some that I have always done. We moved to West Cornwall when I was four years old. So it very much feels like my home. I was introduced to sketching ‘en plein air’ in Cornwall with some Art homework set by my teacher Mr...
by Nick | Jan 15, 2019 | Pen Drawing/Sketching, Pencil Drawing
Visiting the RAMM My son and I have come to Exeter’s marvellous RAMMuseum (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...
by Nick | May 22, 2004 | Pen Drawing/Sketching, Pencil Drawing, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Back on the Isles of Scilly We stepped off the Scillonian back onto St Mary’s and the beautiful Isles of Scilly. It’s just such a special place, you seem to immediately slip back into a relaxed Scillies way of life. It was lovely and sunny, but there was a...
by Nick | Jun 1, 2000 | Charcoal Drawings, Pencil Drawing
Featured sketch above: A4 ~ Charcoal sketch on coloured paper. J & I have been out for a walk around the Berkshire Downs, we have arrived at the fantastic Uffington White Horse. What a beautiful piece of stylised design. A 1990 excavation led by Simon Palmer and...
by Nick | May 24, 1999 | Pen & Wash Sketching, Pen Drawing/Sketching, Pencil Drawing, Watercolour paintings & sketches
Orkney The Orkney Islands are a beautiful and romantic place – if somewhat windy. For the artist, there are pictures wherever you turn. So I was very busy, sketching as much as I could in the few days that we were staying. We had also come for the music...
