Made a new ink drawing of the Card Players today using only my Kuratake brush pens. One leaked black ink all over my hands (too much heat, perhaps?) and the other had almost run out of ink, leaving me with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A magnificently elaborate facade, we first passed this while exploring a little further away from our hotel in Tours last spring. A rather messy sketch, and not technically accurate, but more of an impression of the fancy building. We stepped[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was sketched from a photograph taking while taking a long walk around Teynham in Kent. Photographed my sketchbook on the dining table.
From my sketchbook today, a wooden bridge over a stream in the Watendlath valley in the Lake District, a place I visit relatively often.
A lovely deer statue at a public drinking fountain, seen while walking around near the cathedral in the main square in Sion, Switzerland.
The deserted outdoor scene at a restaurant by the river in Sion, Switzerland in the late summer of 2023. The restaurant hadn’t opened yet for dinner and we were just taking a stroll around the streets near our hotel. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The photo was taken while on an evening stroll around Chelsea shortly after the pandemic lockdowns, when London was silent and very strange. This was a quick sketch done one hot afternoon sitting out on the patio of my parents’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bought some Kuratake Real Color brushes to experiment with, to try and phase out use of my old brush and ink, have not really got the hang of it yet, resulting in somewhat mottled results while shading. Made a sketch[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Returning to some inking and drawing again after a long break. Recently read that the 1939 Art Deco cinema in my hometown of Penang has been slated for demolition by the city council for the construction of another superfluous 27-storey[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I decided on a whim to completely redraw Nighthawks, which is one of the stronger stories in my Painting Stories collection, but now the drawing seems substandard to me, although some of it still retains some expressive charm, I think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…