Off to a different Costa Coffee this time - one overlooking the M2. Rather than lots of little vignettes I thought I'd try some bigger pictures...
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Watercolor Masters And Legends, Betsy Dillard Stroud – Book Review
This is a 160-page hardback that I had one eye on and that I lashed out and bought when it dropped to under a fiver on Amazon. It talks about...
Costa Coffee, Hempstead Valley, 12 February 2020
I spent a bit of time in Costa this morning practicing furtively drawing people at speed. I concentrated on getting lines down and added the...
Cathy
I've fallen into a trap. Now everybody wants me to draw their portrait on their birthday. This weekend it was Cathy's birthday and this is my...
Lizzie
It's also Lizzie's birthday today, so here's another portrait. I think this is more recognisably Lizzie than Amanda was Amanda. You can see from...
Amanda
I'm quite getting into this portrait drawing with markers, although I still have a long way to go before I can call myself anything near...
View Of Cafe Nero From Costa
I'm in London today, off to see Tedeschi Trucks Band and Blackberry Smoke at Wembley Arena. Should be good. Anyway, I thought I'd take the...
Clive
Another portrait. This is Clive the bantering butcher from the local farmshop at MB Farms (http://www.mbfarms.co.uk/index.html) in Stockbury,...
Jimbo
More Tuesday portraiture and it's another bassist and Facebook friend. This is Jimbo, a mate from school, bassist with grungy rock duo Matildaz...
Roy With A Beard
It's Tuesday and Sky Portrait Artist Of The Year is on later, so I was in the mood for a bit of portraiture. Obviously using markers. I'm nowhere...
Sketching People, Lynne Chapman – Book Review
Time to review the other urban sketching book that I bought on Christmas Day. This one is a 128 page paperback but feels much longer. I've only...
Day Trip To Canterbury
I nipped into Canterbury today for lunch with an old work colleague and thought I'd make a day of it by getting there early and giving the markers...
Nathan In Colour
My first exercise with these new markers was to trace out the picture I'd drawn of Nathan a couple of months ago and apply a bit of colour to it....
The Urban Sketcher, Marc Taro Holmes – Book Review
I thought it was about time I read up on urban sketching. Even if I'd not been given those markers for Christmas, I was planning on heading out at...
Winsor & Newton Promarkers
These beasts were waiting for me on Christmas morning. They're all Winsor & Newton Promarkers with a chisel head at one end and a pointy one...
Nathan
This is the result of one of the exercises in Keys To Drawing by Bert Dodson. It's a portrait of one of my kids in the style of Henri Matisse. I...
Keys To Drawing, Bert Dodson – Book Review
I've made it to the end of Bert's book at last. At 224 pages long, it's huge. The first five chapters were fantastic. They're on contour...
Summer 2019 Poll Results
Here are the results of the latest poll. Hidden Village came out equal top. Otherwise no big surprises really. People are still welcome to vote...
Summer 2019 Poll
The nights are fair drawin' in and I don't think I'll be out in the garden painting much more this year, so I think it's time for another painting...
Something Different For Christmas?
It's just over ten weeks to Christmas. If you wanted to buy something different, have you thought about a painting? If you press "For Sale"on the...