Sheffield on the hill - looking up Pond Hill..... stage 2: the windows and a few shadows.
Sheffield at the top of Pond Hill
Next!! Sheffield on the hill - looking up Pond Hill..... stage 1, the pen drawing.
Whitby, North Yorkshire, after the landslide
Whitby after the Landslide. Finished at last! Do you think I've put too many seagulls on the mudflats - they're usually all around the chip shop.
Whitby continued......
Didn't get anything done today (grandchild minding) but just the foreground and shadows to paint!
Whitby
I'm well on with this one - "Whitby after the landslide" - it's for the "10 artists and 10 paintings" Exhibition at Baslow on 24 & 25 October this year.
Spain, Andalusia, Granada
A very fast sketchette of the Alambra in Granada from the Mirador in front of the Church of San Nicholas across a very steep and narrow valley. It had to be a very quick sketch - friends were waiting. I perched myself astride (like on a horse) a low stone wall to stop the crowds on the placa pushing me off the wall and down a 20 foot drop to the road below. I met a very nice Spanish lady who had enough English to say she liked my painting - I only had enough Spanish to say grathias!
The Alambra panorama
The nice Spanish Lady.
Seville, Spain
While my wife and friends went on a riverboat trip on the Canal de Alfonso X111 - an arm off the Rio Guardalquivir I spent the morning drawing the Cathedral and part of the afternoon painting it. I was sitting under a shady tree just outside the exit from the stunning Alcazar which we had visited the day before. A guide on one of the many packs of tourists that stood in front of me while I was drawing said to them that it was the best view of the Tower - my instinct to sit in that spot was spot on!
