Tag: Hampton Court

  • 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…

  • Kingston Regatta – Messing Around In Boats 2

    Kingston Regatta – Messing Around In Boats 2

    One man and a regatta of boats! For a long time I banned the river as somewhere to draw and paint. Lockdown meant the subject had been burnt out for me as I was working there every day. It’s the nearest thing to me, and when we were only allowed out for a walk I…

  • Mynktober Inktober Day 25-31

    Mynktober Inktober Day 25-31

    Another Inktober / Mynktober finished – oops spoilers! the second in as many years. This year I think I managed it better, last year I did a lot of prevaricating and starting work at 3am – not possible this year and I think it helped make it a lot less stressful. Also working smaller helped,…

  • All The Hams

    All The Hams

    There are a lot of Hams around here. I know from my History GCSE it probably means ‘clearing by a river’ and all these are by the River Thames. First one is fountain pen drawing of Ham House through the fence and it’s just a cheap way of drawing the statue in situ. I’m not…

  • Night Work #4

    Night Work #4

    When the weather wasn’t freezing during the start of September I did some more of the night paintings. The last in this series is the first here, the ‘Towards The City (Night Version)’, a view from Richmond Park at night towards the city which is almost the night version of this oil painting, just further…

  • Inktober Week 2

    Inktober Week 2

    The second week of Inktober – and it’s a difficult week with some rather irritatingly fantasy themed prompts and now the shiny newness is over I’m struggling to juggle things. Not so much fatigue, more that 2-3am ‘do I really have to do this?’ angst which I solved by telling myself yes you bloody well…