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Selfie
Read more: SelfieSomewhat to my surprise (and also somewhat to my regret!) this drawing has a passing resemblance to yours truly. So no, my skin is not quite that blotchy – that is an artefact of the style I have tried to draw in. Also yes, I do have that many wrinkles (or perhaps a few more…
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Under Reigate Hill
Read more: Under Reigate HillWell obviously this isn’t really “under” the hill – this is the path that runs from the main Reigate Hill road to Wray Lane, and so the path effectively runs across the foot of the hill. However, to me the phrase “under the hill” sums this up rather well and I get to choose the…
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Goðafoss
Read more: GoðafossIceland has several magnificent waterfalls, many with equally impressive names. The name Goðafoss is often translated as “waterfall of the gods” and the view across it is certainly awe-inspiring. In the summer you might reasonably expect to see this fall illuminated by bright sunshine, but on our visit the sky was a leaden grey which…
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Raindrops
Read more: RaindropsThe way that raindrops play with light is fascinating and, if you can remember from physics how lenses work, not too difficult to understand. This picture is simply an attempt to get the rain-on-glass effect to look realistic. The rather blurry background to the scene is actually Iceland, a place that provides all sorts of…
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Tomatoes
Read more: TomatoesI have always been impressed by those stylised pictures where very few colours or tones are used to create very striking images – often used for example in period posters. It occurred to me when I first started playing with drawing apps on the computer that they would be an ideal medium in which to…
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New Boots
Read more: New BootsAn unexpected side-effect of the pandemic lockdown was that we started walking a lot. Well there wasn’t much else we were allowed to do outdoors and we are lucky enough to live only a few minutes from a range of hills covered in walking paths. Of course, if you start walking a lot there comes…
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A Perspective on Stowe
Read more: A Perspective on StoweStowe House sits in the middle of the equally magnificent Stowe Gardens, now run by the National Trust. The house itself contains a school about which regretably I know very little – which I’m sure is my loss rather than theirs! However, I do know that the gardens and buildings of Stowe offer many amazing…
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A Fresh Face
Read more: A Fresh FaceI always feel that drawing a face presents a type of double jeapody. Not only is there an expectation that the face will look real, there is often an equally strong requirement that the drawing actually looks like the person being drawn! This desire for a convincing likeness makes drawing well know personalities particularly challenging,…
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Rambling Rose
Read more: Rambling RoseWe bought this rose at a local garden fete, with a warning from the stall holder that this plant was “a bit of a thug”! I think it is a “Rambling Rector” – a variety more formally described as having “very vigorous growth” and as being “very thorny”. At the moment I drew this rose…
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A Gate in York
Read more: A Gate in YorkYork has many streets which are called gates – and this is a drawing of one of them. This gate is straighter than many, although perhaps not quite as straight as I have drawn it. I think too that there are often many more people walking down this street – perhaps everyone is elsewhere because…
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Daffodil
Read more: DaffodilAnyone remember the Spring of 2020? There were daffodils around of course, but there was also a deadly new disease apparently running rampant around the world. This particular flower was drawn a few days before we were all “locked down”, but at a time when we were already becoming wary of getting too close to…
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Battle Undercroft
Read more: Battle UndercroftBattle is of course famous as being the place where “William the Bastard” (or “Guillaume le Batard” as he was known back home) became “William the Conqueror” by beating the incumbent king Harold Godwinson. An abbey was subsequently built to mark the spot and the occasion, the remains of which are still standing. This particular…
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