Monday 25 May 2015

Summertime cricket and it's looking good for England against New Zealand in the Test match

it was actually a very grey afternoon as I cycled past this local cricket match, watercolour  11ins x7ins on NOT 140lb.
it was based on very hurried pen and brush pen sketch in moleskin pad when I got  home

Thursday 7 May 2015

2 views of St Mary's church, Portchester, UK

original sketch: St Mary's Church Portchester; days of strong winds; brush pen and fine liner in moleskin journal
the second was done in comfort indoors; watercolour on coldpressed 300g/m2

for those interested in church history and architecture: St Mary's is a classic Norman church built 1133 for the monastic community which located in the grounds of Portchester castle. The community moved out twenty years later; the church over the centuries lost its south transept hence the odd shape, and the original chancel removed and replaced by a much smaller one