Firefighters' gear

 visit to my son's firestation

fellow train travellers

Altar servers: dip pen and wash on A5

Sketch at Driver awareness Training

 A few weeks ago I was caught speeding: 35mph in a 30mph zone! No fine, but like many others attended Driver Awareness Training. There were nearly 50 of us in two groups this morning. Interesting course, made more interesting by the participants; here are three.
Ps I am now a suitably reformed, contrite and repentant driver!

End of an Era

End of an Era: over the last few months every Saturday I've drawn aspects of this redundant Amh unit where I once worked. The person whom we visited in the home next door has passed away. These 2 coloured pencil drawings are a kind of tribute.

Conkers ; 65 year old boy

I found these whilst walking: they had just fallen. I felt the same thrill as when I was a small boy hunting them for competitions in the school play ground;

 

 

This second one done with sepia ink and dip pen and wash

 

 



I thought I had finished, but couldn't resist trying sepia ink wash with colour wash

Some recent fine liner drawings;people and places

The Hare and the Hermit; recently I was assisting at a confirmation service; in his homily the Bishop mentioned visiting a hermit in the north of England years ago. Suddenly, what he thought was a rabbit arrived and allowed the hermit to fondle his ear. "I didn't know you had a rabbit" said the Bishop. "I haven't, it's a wild hare " replied the hermit. The anecdote stand in the tradition of the Celtic saints noted for their rapprochement with wild creatures.

The lady and the Kite in the cemetery
Someone I know well has been widowed: she spend a lot of time in the graveyard. She described how recently she saw a kite trapped in a tree there. It was telling her something, she's still working it out. Her powerful words formed an image in my mind: this is it, fortunately recently I had done another study in a graveyard:

This graveyard is set in the grounds of St Mary's Church Portchester, a church built 1133 as part of an Abbey which vacated the site twenty years later, part of the transepts were demolished, but the church still functions as a parish church.

 

This next one is Gosport War Memorial Hospital entrance (south) where I work part-time