After a few days off dealing with all sorts of other stuff in my life, I'm back to work again. Today it's some figure drawing in coloured pencils...
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Stockbury Church Tower
For my final dash and splash of the day, I headed out to Stockbury Church and settled down in a spot that I'd painted from before. After not being...
MB Farms, Stockbury
After drawing the pub, I wandered up the road to MB Farms, Stockbury's village shop and the closest shop to those of us in Hartlip. MB Farms...
The Harrow, Stockbury
Sunday is always a good day for a dash and splash and today I've trekked out to my neighbouring village of Stockbury to do three drawings before...
Tweaking The Random Colour Generator
As an actuary, I'm feeling professionally bound to disclose that I've made some tweaks today to the spreadsheet that chooses three random colours...
Hills In Shire Colours
As I said in the last post, I felt like I could do a second quick painting today. Because I’d managed to paint an imaginary landscape quite...
Hills In Tundra Colours
The rain's finally stopped, so I'm back on the watercolours at last. I thought I'd let myself back in gently by painting an imaginary landscape...
Felicia In Inktense Pencil
It's raining again and three successive days of drawing with coloured pencils would see my standards really drop, so I'm back to inktense pencils....
Felicia
It's still raining here and more's due tomorrow. I know I'm overdue a watercolour but I can't be going outside in this weather, so I'm stuck...
Thea’s Back
More angular figure drawing and today's model was Thea. You know the drill by now. Put down the drawing with lots of straight lines, put on lots...
Niecy
It's been a while but the weather today was just right for oil pastels. No rain, warm enough to paint outside, not so hot that the pastels melt....
Four Views From A Californian Bus Stop
The idea came to me over the weekend when I was watching a famous Hitchcock film on the telly. There's a famous scene of someone waiting at a bus...
Sam
It's raining outside, which is a big frustration because I have a great idea for my next watercolour. Instead I'm stuck indoors and thought I'd...
David Bowie
In the mood for a coloured pencil drawing today, so looked at the CD collection and decided to go for Bowie. The CD collection is pretty good...
Thatch Cottage, Hartlip – The Full Monty
Someone approached me the other of about the possibility of painting Thatch Cottage in my home village of Hartlip. It's a cottage I've painted...
Miriam
Only half the day available today for painting so I reached for the coloured pencils. It's a modelling debut today for Miriam. Please make her...
Auger Close, Hartlip
And here's the final dash and splash of the day. I didn't have to dash very far after drawing it as it's a view from my back garden, albeit with...
Archway To Hartlip Church, Dashed And Splashed
The plan was to do three dash and splashes today but we had an early dinner and I had to head home after doing two drawings. After lunch, I went...
Hartlip Village Hall
Next I wandered over to the village hall and found a comfortable place to sit and draw. I might have put the village hall slightly too high on the...
Hartlip Methodist Church
I’ve had a busy day dashing and splashing around the village. I just woke I up in that sort of mood. I started by heading for the Methodist...