Tag: Derwent Cumberland Pencil Company

  • Equinox and Solstice

    Equinox and Solstice

    I did three pieces around the equinox and solstice, two in March of the same view (night and day) and another piece at Solstice of the sun setting over one of the ‘sentinels‘ – what I call the red life buoy stands that seem to watch the river, waiting for something – my first modern…

  • Night On The River

    Night On The River

    It’s been a while since I spent the night drawing or painting on the river – in fact there is a whole gallery of Night Work from a year or more ago doing exactly that. Because of winter and quite often starting late, I’ve been catching a lot of sunsets and nocturnal views, working from…

  • Abstract Advent: Week 2

    Abstract Advent: Week 2

    Last week was a blast, this week for the Abstract Advent the Christmas Shit™ started to bite, and I found it harder to juggle meeting up with people, portrait sessions, getting all the cards and parcels off in a panic because like storms, flooding, wrong kind of wind, snow and ice on the roads as…

  • Abstract Advent: Week 1

    Abstract Advent: Week 1

    After completing Inktober for the last two years I took a well-deserved rest this year, but am taking part in the slightly shorter ‘Abstract Advent’ as run by @artpedagogy, like an abstract advent calendar but on Instagram – so it runs from the 1st of December to the 24th. Unlike the word prompts of Inktober,…

  • Bus Shelter Redux

    Bus Shelter Redux

    Just realised I missed a few of the Bus Shelter series that should have been in the previous post but they’re good enough to get their own post. Both graphitints, and from the wet springtime when I was sheltering in bus stops to have anywhere to work outside the flat. The first one is called…

  • Raven’s Art

    Raven’s Art

    Every once in a while I test whether I still hate doing river pieces, after the burn out last year during Lockdown 1. The answer is: sort of, I feel I have done this subject to death so unless there is something unusual going on, a different angle, or not much time before it goes…