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More Stopover Sketching…

Here’s another scribble I did during my hour and a half stopover in Manchester Piccadilly train station on the way back from visiting in the Lake District the other week. This chap was totally engrossed in his phone. I was drawing from a mezzanine about the main station concourse.

Stopover Sketching

I was visiting in the Lake District the other week and travelled by train. I had an hour and a half stopover in Manchester on the way back so I had a picnic and a scribble in my sketchbook. The lad on the right had an interesting hairdo; like a pudding basin cut with flick-upsContinue reading “Stopover Sketching”

Stayed In Sniffling…

Here’s another sketch I did en plein air last Spring in the Lake District. I was hoping to have done more last week when I visited, but it seems I might have developed geriatric hay fever and I ended up mostly staying indoors, sniffling. Ah well, I’ll stay by the sea in summer in future.

Been Away…

I visited the Lake district last week but unfortunately went down with something not long after I got there. I’m not sure if it was a lurgi, or whether I had hay fever for the first time. I didn’t have a temperature which makes me think it wasn’t a virus, and the farmers had beenContinue reading “Been Away…”

Sketchbook Archives: 64

Going back to July 2015 for this group of portrait sketches of elder women. I used conté crayons in white, sanguine and black onto brown parcel paper pasted into a sketchbook.

Scribbleheads…

I keep meaning to do more random sketches from imagination, just letting my bit of graphite scribble away to see what happens, but I find it so hard to let go and not work from life. I MUST TRY HARDER!!! 😀

It’s A Heatwave!

It’s so hot at the moment, we Brits don’t do extreme weather very well. It’s been over 30 Centigrade for the past few days. It’s quite a mild climate here in South Wales anyway, here’s one of the palm trees on the beach nearby.

Sketchbook Archives: 63

Looking through my sketchbooks from June 2015, I was going through a phase of pasting brown wrapping paper into my sketchbooks to give a bit more variety to my drawings. Here are some I did of musicians at one of the local folk clubs.