by Chris | Aug 13, 2019 | Holiday sketching
A week by the sea in Norfolk in and around Winterton-on-Sea and the Broads. One of my favourite happy places for a holiday. So as soon as we sit down on a walk or on the beach I feel like drawing in the sketchbook. These are all views I’ve probably sketched...
by Chris | Apr 4, 2019 | Urban Sketching
A day out with my family in London visiting the Greenwich Maritime Museum and the Cutty Sark. I had to do the sketch above, it’s such a lovely architectural subject. Trying to simplify this into its component parts was the challenge, so as not to take more than...
by Chris | Mar 18, 2019 | Urban Sketching
Out with the Birmingham Urban Sketchers Group on 17th March 2019 for attempts to capture something of the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Digbeth. Not easy when the wind is furious, and suddenly sleet and hail come out of nowhere! Add to that moving targets to try...
by Chris | Mar 11, 2019 | Urban Sketching
A bright but very windy Saturday drew me out with my sketchbook, not with a group this time but on my own for a bit of sketching. However familiar places are to us in our own home town, they transform in our minds when we start to sketch them and we see them afresh. I...
by Chris | Mar 6, 2019 | Urban Sketching
The first days of Spring, and appropriately enough I find myself out again with the hardy Urban sketchers of Birmingham meeting at Spring Hill Library. I managed to get the first sketch in before we officially met at 11.00am. ...
by Chris | Feb 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
This was drawn whilst out with the Birmingham Urban Sketchers group, at the Chinese New Year celebrations in February 2019. It was cold and people were still setting up as it was early. If you look hard you can just see another sketchers...
by Chris | Feb 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
This is one of my favourite views of the town of Great Malvern, looking across the rooftops of Malvern Priory and the Priory Gatehouse. The warmth of the stone and the variety of architectural styles combine to an elegant whole that is typical of the town. I worked...
by Chris | Mar 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
CADIZ AND JEREZ Sketching trip 8th -15th May 2016 A travelogue as written up in my sketchbooks alongside my sketches during the trip. CADIZ Monday 9th May 16 My arrival in Cadiz has been characterised by sudden and violent thunderstorms, a deluge of biblical...
by Chris | Mar 20, 2018 | Paintings of Italy, Watercolour Paintings
This is a view I have painted before, but never taking in such a wide panorama. It was done during a quiet break from my commercial work, in March 2018. I was longing to do something for myself and revisit Venice so I did so in my mind for a few days and produced this...
by Chris | Mar 20, 2018 | Sketchbook Musings
A day out to Hereford with Gill, and as usual I am parked for an hour with my sketchbook while Gill goes off to the shops. It’s a happy arrangement and I thoroughly enjoyed sitting in this quiet corner enjoying the Autumn sunshine. I coloured it as well on the...