Tag: Spring (season)

  • Darling Buds of May – Flower Studies

    Darling Buds of May – Flower Studies

    Over the last few years I’ve been forcing myself to do more flower studies. Like buildings, flowers are not something I come to naturally, but they appear in the foreground of my landscapes so I needed to be better at depicting them. (Unlike people who also rarely appear in my plein air work, a landscape…

  • 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…

  • Bus Shelter series

    Bus Shelter series

    Recently I have been increasingly drawing and painting the views from a bus shelter. It is a challenge as not many shelters are in picturesque places! I started doing this in 2019 and early 2020 just waiting for buses or hiding from the rain. This became rather more urgent and even poltiical in lockdown because…