Category: Drawing

Rhubarb Festival

Rhubarb Festival goers

We missed out on Wakefield’s Rhubarb Festival last year but they’ve been lucky enough to hit a rare spell of settled weather this weekend and the stalls on the precinct were busy.

blossom
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Queen’s Drive

Queen's Drive

Black-headed gull, wood pigeon and a small flock of starlings fly over Queen’s Drive, Ossett, as we have lunch at the fish and chip restaurant.

daffodils

With less than a week to go before the start of meteorological spring, I’ve just started a new A6 landscape sketchbook, having just finished an even smaller pocket sketchbook, best suited to pen only. It’s good to be working in colour again.

clock and candlestick

The View from Shelley

View from Shelley

We’ve had three named storms in the last seven days and we decided that Newmillerdam would be too windswept and waterlogged for our Monday morning walk.

view from Dobbies, Shelley

So instead we headed for Dobbies Garden Centre, Shelley, where we could enjoy the view across the valley of Shepley Dike through the panoramic windows of the cafe.

Art Bag

art bag

With Storm Eunice lashing the studio windows, this seemed like a good time to prepare for getting out and sketching when the spring weather comes, checking the contents of my main art bag. This was drawn in the 8×8 inch Pink Pig Ameleie sketchbook, using the Lamy pens and the Winsor & Newton professional watercolours that I keep in there.

All ready to go out sketching now , , , when the weather improves.

Blacker Hall Window

These are the last couple of pages – and the back inside cover – in my pocket-sized sketchbook.

The multi-stemmed sycamore grows behind the Halifax, last remaining bank in Ossett.

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Pepper the Lurcher

For a lean rescue dog, Pepper the Lurcher seemed remarkably calm but her owner tells me that he’s noticed that if he gets out any kind of pole, like a garden rake, she’ll go straight back in the house, so she might have had a troubled history. She reacted to bangs from the kitchen in the Coffee Stop at the Junction where I was drawing her and looked at me with soulful eyes when I tackled a slice of cheesecake. Needless to say she didn’t get any (but the dog-friendly cafe provides a healthy option canine treat).

Rainy Morning

Rainy morning sketches comic strip

Drawing indoors and in a rainswept car park: this morning’s rain meant that we didn’t get off to Newmillerdam. I was looking down on the cars at the same angle as I was looking down on the piles of books and CDs on the shelf under my brother-in-law’s coffee table, so they look like a couple of models.

Church Street, Haworth

Church Street, Haworth

The Main Street end of Church Street, Haworth, from a photograph I took in 2013, that’s the church on the right and, according to Google, we’re looking at the back of what is now Haworth Wholefoods.