Tag Archives: en plein air

Christmas Carols In The Pub.

I went to a nice festive do at a local pub just before Xmas, an evening of live acoustic music. Husb belongs to a choir, Cor Aderyn Du (the Blackbird Choir) who gave a rousing set of medieval carols and there were other performers too. Of course, I had to have a bit of aContinue reading “Christmas Carols In The Pub.”

A Crisp Cold Day.

I’ve posted a couple of old sketchbook drawings recently, of drawings I did on cold, dark evenings but here’s one from my Khadi sketchbook that I did in the daytime, It was still crisp and cold though!

Another Crisp Cold Night…

It’s another cold, dark wintry night and I’m cwtched on the settee in the warm, marvelling that a few years ago I wouldn’t be at all phased at going out for a walk with my sketchbook. But you know, I’m embracing my age and happily going through my old Winter sketches instead. Here’s one fromContinue reading “Another Crisp Cold Night…”

A Crisp Cold Night.

Twelve years ago, I was younger and fitter and didn’t think twice about going for a stroll with a sketchbook on a cold, dark Winter evening. Nowadays, to be honest, it’s hard to work up the motivation to drag myself from the settee and repeats of The Masked Singer USA. Looking back at December 2012,Continue reading “A Crisp Cold Night.”

Sketchbook Archives: 21

Back in November 2012, Husb and I were lucky enough to visit the wonderful country of Iceland, the original Land of Ice and Fire. The landscape was unlike anything I’ve ever seen, brutal with beautiful colours. It was freezing cold and drawing was a challenge, not only for my fingers but also my drawing materialsContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 21”

Sketchbook Archives: 20

I’ve reached November 2012 in my sketchbook archives, just over a year since I started this blog to put my sketches out there into the world. It’s difficult to show sketchbooks, yet they underpin the work of many artists. This month it was mostly people with a few crows – I think they were crowsContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 20”

Sketchbook Archives: 19

Some more archive sketches from October 2012, out and about with architecture, people and pigeons. I like pigeons, they’re happy and chubby little creatures. Not easy to draw though because they fidget so much. It was only 11 years ago but we have far more seagulls in the city now and far fewer pigeons. IContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 19”

Sketchbook Archives: 17

Here’s a snapshot of my sketchbook in September 2012, I was getting out and about, two cafes and a blustery day on Swansea Beach. There’s also a strange sketch of three pigs heads in the old Swansea Magistrates Court, I was involved in a very surreal short film…. And top left a scribble of the oldContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 17”

Live At The Boxing Club: 6

The last of my scribbles from the Gwent Boxing Club in Townhill in Swansea. The lads are really, really fast so there was no time to do any detailed drawing, I could only do speed sketching. It was good practice to capture movement as quickly as I could. It was very intense, lots of concentration, but worth it becauseContinue reading “Live At The Boxing Club: 6”