Jamie the hearing dog

Put this together on the last night Jamie the hearing dog stayed with us.  Struggled a bit with Michael's skin colour.

Sleeping sunbather

We caught Michael sleeping with a pair of sunglasses on.  It was done in 2012, but I never got round to posting till now.

Mikey moo

Dashed this one out and it's the first one that doesn't make Michael look like he is 90 years old.

Choir practice

Did this one some time ago with watercolour pencils.  I no longer use these as they are very unpredictable and can't be layered.

Tree by the stile

Went to Nick's house to check out the fisherman's lodge and my eye was caught by this tree. Had to stop because the rain started lashing down.

Louisiana, Bristol

On location sketch of Sennen Time a performer at the Louisiana pub in bristol.  The performances take place in a whitewashed cellar in the basement - the sound was great.

Glasgow rooftop

My little effort late September in a rooftop restaurant in Glasgow.  Sketch was done on site and the watercolour done at my leisure later on.  The meal wasn't bad too.

Small beginnings

Live sketch down at West Wycombe.  My first effort using the Winsor and Newton travel watercolours.  With the colour range available it will be difficult to go back to the watercolour pencils.

Down at the Pedestal

Here goes...it's been a really long time since my last post and it's fair to say I've not done a lot since then.  This is my latest project, Ben's son Charlie playing football at the new home of Downley Dynamos, outside the pavilion that we are attempting to restore.

This has taken quite a while to put together and I moved well away from the sketchy style of recent times, though i intend to get back to it. The plan with this was to create something where it wasn't really clear how the tones had been created, which is more true for the Charlie than the background, which was deliberately light in tone.

Portsmouth harbour

This is a little something I knocked up whilst waiting for our ferry to leave from Portsmouth harbour. The harbour is full of navy vessels and I think this one had Bristol down the side of it. It looked like a group of sea cadets went on board as we left port.