Here is a selection of recent sketches, some fairly good and some not so!
But practice makes perfect, so the saying goes, and I know that's true, so no matter how far from perfect, practice is what I need.
This first is a tree I noticed one day on my walk. It was next to a very modern house, which I have outlined in the sketch.
What struck me were the colours, which I have tried to approach with the watercolours to the left.
I thought it was about time I tried again with felt pens after a long gap concentrating on pencil and watercolour.
So here is my effort: based on a photo we took of Bath Abbey and the square in front of it and the Bath Building next door when we were there in 2008.
It is beginning to seem like a long time ago, but it still gives us a lot of pleasure to go over the memories with the photos, and to attempt to sketch the places we visited from the shots.
I put the photos up on the TV monitor by means of a pen-drive in the TV's USB slot (we bought a particular model because it had this facility when we came home from that trip).
One cool, clear, breezy morning I went for a walk to Devon Street, and sat in a sheltered spot to sketch this house, which is at present unused, but a few years ago was a land agent's offices.
As you can see, I could just make out the snow-covered mountain to the right of the house.
I was waiting for a friend in the Huatoki Plaza one fine morning and sketched this view towards the sea and the Wind Wand.
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