The day started with a frost but by lunchtime that had melted away as a warm front came through, although it didn’t turn mild enough to melt the ice on the pond. As a change from the iPad, I’ve gone back to a real sketchbook, a Pink Pig with their own brand of 270 gsm […]
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The Wood at Dusk
It’s lovely to catch up with old friends as Christmas approaches but by the time we’ve caught up on all the news and gone out to find a late lunch (and run into yet more friends and relations) the afternoon is almost over, so it’s dusk by the time I draw the wood in the […]
A Hawthorn by the Beck
3.25 p.m., 45°F, 7°C: This ivy-covered hawthorn has rotted through near its base and collapsed across a bend in Coxley Beck. When I painted this hawthorn twenty years ago, the bank on the outside bend had already been undercut. The ivy will survive by putting out adventitious roots where the upper branches of the thorn have come […]
A Rain-lashed Weekend
The rain was lashing in with such force yesterday afternoon that it smashed out an already broken pain of glass in the greenhouse, leaving shards of glass on the ground. A short storm in the afternoon drove lashings of spray down our road. This afternoon, I painted directly in watercolour as the fading light added a […]