Sketching Blog

Cold clear winters day, with the sun dropping away. Very cold sketching, but I always love this view, looking over the common to the hills and sea beyond. Over East Budleigh someone is having a bonfire with smoke rising. Now I’ll have to jump around to get my hands working again, I don’t feel the …

In the above title I also haven’t mentioned that it is still a bit chilly round the edges, this January morning, but still very pleasant. We have just popped down quickly to Exmouth beach (Devon) for J to get a bit of sea air, after being cooped in the office all week. Small lad though …

Grey day down at Budleigh Salterton (Devon), with a chilly wind, fortunately on the beach we had our backs to it, so it wasn’t so bad. (On the way back we walked in the lee of the shops.) A lot of Gulls were wheeling around in the sky. This sketch is of some of the …

Quick visit down to Topsham (Devon) again, for a walk around the town and along the ‘Goat Walk’. As usual we go via the church and the long flight of steps, down to the river Exe. So that we can feed the ducks, swans, geese and pigeons. Today though I think they have already been …

Went down to Topsham (Devon) with the sun going down, lovely low wintery light. Reasonably quiet and quite mild, one person standing on the slip looking up river. (Coloured Paper & Oil Pastels)