Tag: River Man

  • Tales From The Riverbank 2 – Two Ways of Seeing a River

    Tales From The Riverbank 2 – Two Ways of Seeing a River

    Seascapes haven’t been the only marine subject this summer – as I said in the first of the riverbank posts, I have gone back to drawing the River Thames more since the Big Burn Out after Lockdown 1 where it was the only nearest subject I had, and it became stifling as much as I…

  • 5PM Challenge 70-87

    5PM Challenge 70-87

    The virus hangs like a dark cloud over this set of work from my daily challenge – in fact one of the last pieces I did in the last set of highlights was about COVID-19, just as the first set of lockdowns were coming in, and I was in semi-isolation, avoiding London. Oh how little…

  • Hogsmill

    Hogsmill

    Avoiding the dangerous Easter zombie crush along the River Thames, I have been exploring quieter parts including the Hogsmill River. The Hogsmill is a tributary of the Thames, much favoured by the Pre-Raphaelites, William Holman-Hunt regularly painted near it, or in the case of John Millais most famously painted a woman in it near Tolworth,…

  • Lilac Time – Night Paintings #8

    Lilac Time – Night Paintings #8

    Given the warmer and weather and the lack of looky-loos I’ve returned to night painting. (Previously the rubbernecking people who come up to you while painting was just an annoyance, it is now a real danger in the age of COVID-19). The first painting ‘Ghost Ship #2’ was a late night addition to a previous…

  • River Man

    River Man

    I am breaking one of my rules which is to post 5PM Challenge works first over at my Instagram, and another that I also that I post them as a series in the Highlights posts but these drawings feel like they should be together, in fact they are from the same sketchbook. They all come…