Showing posts with label Drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drawing. Show all posts

Monday 19 September 2016

Some painting in Italy

 Sketching early evening at Cortona Square




 afternoon sketching


strong colours in Cortona square


Pen and ink sketch of Cortona from hotel

Watercolour sketch from Cortona Square Garibaldi


Wednesday 31 August 2016

Shropshire Hills - graphite study


Wolverhampton is close to the beautiful Shropshire hills.   This is from the top of the Long Mynd begind Church Stretton.

Out and about sketching this summer





The waterfall at Furnace, near Machynlleth, Wales.
I started by drawing with a white gell pen on the toned paper and then added gouache.





Sketched in a short dry spell between very, heavy rain.   We were camping in a field and were fine but 3 or 4 fields away from us the grass was totally under water.

There is an interesting mid-18th century charcoal iron furnace next to the waterfall and sometimes you can the the waterwheel in operation.




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Thursday 3 July 2014

Drawing in a Walsall saddlery


I've been drawing in a Walsall saddlery to produce work for an 'Echoes' project run by Walsall Leather Museum.  It was a fascinating time gaining a glimpse into this small business.  The building was used as a leather horse collar workshop in the early 1800s but with the growth of other means of transport, this died out and it's fitting that a leather business continues to be in the same premises.
I'm wondering whether to create an etching or drypoint from my sketches.