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Venice by Lamplight
Read more: Venice by LamplightThere is an almost infinite choice of vistas and objects to sketch in Venice. Nevertheless originality is still rather difficult since almost every wannabe artist who has visited the place in the last few centuries has had a go! So here, without any claim to originality whatsoever, is one of my contributions. This scene is…
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Red Ginger
Read more: Red GingerThe Botanic Gardens in Singapore have many dazzling flowers on display. This particular Red Ginger (apparently also called Alpina purpurata, Ostrich Plume and Pink Cone Ginger) caught my eye, and I have only slightly exaggerated the colour of the petals in this painting. I used the Procreate app running on an iPad to “paint” this…
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La Pyramide du Louvre
Read more: La Pyramide du LouvreThis rather well known juxtaposition of ancient and modern architecture needs very little introduction from me. Suffice it to say that this combination has its fair share of both admirers and detractors. The contrast between old and new is somewhat muted in this picture by the twilight illumination and also by both being rendered in…
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Reigate Heath – Grass & Cow Parsley
Read more: Reigate Heath – Grass & Cow ParsleyI don’t normally see these plants at eye level, but that is the view I wanted so a certain amount of crouching down was necessary to take the photo from which this scene was drawn. Worth it though – the contrast between the foreground and the background in particular is very pleasing, to me at…
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Gozo Coastline – Dandelions
Read more: Gozo Coastline – DandelionsNormally I consider dandelions to be weeds, and if they appear in my lawn I try to get rid of them. When these plants grow elsewhere I tend to ignore them, but in this view along the Gozo coastline they were so abundant and colourful that I had make an exception and pay those dandelions…
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Suzuki Hustler
Read more: Suzuki HustlerJapan (or at least the parts of Japan that we visited) seemed to be full of these “box” or “kei” cars. To my European eyes they initially looked rather quirky, but after a few weeks they ceased to appear odd and instead many of them just struck me as having designs that were full of…
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Lisu Lodge, Mae Taeng – Pond Cartoon
Read more: Lisu Lodge, Mae Taeng – Pond CartoonFor some reason the flora in northern Thailand put me in mind of Herve’s Tintin. I’m not even sure that Tintin ever had a jungle adventure, although it wouldn’t surprise me if he did. Anyway, this view in particular seemed to cry out to be drawn as a comic book scene in which an adventure…
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Lisu Lodge, Mae Taeng – Balcony Sketch
Read more: Lisu Lodge, Mae Taeng – Balcony SketchIn Thailand we were lucky enough to spend a few nights in an amazing hill tribe village. The buildings were to all appearances very traditional, but also very comfortable and not at all lacking in mod-cons, so perhaps they were more “traditional” than traditional. Anyway, the bamboo building we were staying in had a large…
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San Gimignano
Read more: San GimignanoNot so long ago we went on a walking holiday in Tuscany, staying every night in a different hilltop town, one of which was San Gimignano. Each day was full of its own surprises and delights, but there was one thing that happened every day – our walk started downhill in the morning and ended…
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Bullock
Read more: BullockWe often walk past a field used to graze young bullocks, who always seem rather cute and very inquisitive. Of course, one reason why I have a positive reaction to these cattle is because they are safely behind a barbed wire fence – as faithfully reproduced in this painting! It must be said that whenever…
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Bruges Arcade
Read more: Bruges ArcadeThere are many beautiful sights and buildings in Bruges, some quite famous and some not. There is for example the big market square, dominated by a tall belfry tower and filled with cafes and tourists. There is also this arcade, which is just around the back of the building which supports the imposing belfry. This…
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Shadows in Sienna
Read more: Shadows in SiennaSienna in the sunshine is also very full of dark shadows, which to me suggested the use of a very stark black and white effect, drawn here using a vector graphics package called Linearity Curve. The vector graphics technique creates straight and extremely sharp edges, which gives a rather striking effect. However, it must be…
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