Sketching
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a quick addition to the post from our weekend in Tideswell. While there I did a few pencil sketches inspired by the scenery. This is something I am only just starting to play about with, but here they are.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a quick addition to the post from our weekend in Tideswell. While there I did a few pencil sketches inspired by the scenery. This is something I am only just starting to play about with, but here they are.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhile I am busy scanning and archiving, I will upload these for the record. Fear, Love, Remorse. Acrylic and Blood on Canvas, 20x20cm each panel. I will leave it at that.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTypically, after 2 weeks of leave full of rain and general rubbish weather, the sun decided to shine on the last day before I go back to work. I decided to sit on the doorstep and do a bit of painting. These are all quick …
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter coming back from Scotland I have had a play with some painting based on the scenery there, working from the photos I took. This is the view of the sunset from Rockcliffe over Urr Water. In retrospect I think this was always going to …
Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce again, it’s Carnival time. I’ve posted shots from this even each year for some time now, and it’s quite hard to think of exciting and edifying things to say after a while. It’s always an exciting event, though quite busy. This years event was …
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s rarer at the moment that I have been able to get out to intereting places and have some time to actually focus on photography recently, but I recently got the chance on a flying visit (for family affairs) to Kippford in Kirkcudbrightshire. This is …
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s no secret that my train geekery, particularly classic UK diesels comes out fairly often (hey, I am a bona fide ferroequinologist, don’t ya know), and I am very lucky to have the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway so close. It’s also a good ting …
Reading Time: 6 minutesI bought this little set of watercolours from The Range which I visted when chasing Freightliners recently, as I was taken in by the interesting and slightly different colours. It’s a bit of a niche set, and certainly not useful as the only set one …
Reading Time: 2 minutesl have been meaning to go and have a look at the Midland Road Depot for a while, but it has always seemed a bit out of the way for a special trip (Laziness, I know). But when my son had a Rugby day in …
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night was first a 15-minute wait in the pissing rain… For a 3-mile journey on a number 19 bus… To a party in a house nobody knew… And probably shouldn’t go to anyway… …The bible in my pocket and a bottle in my hand… …