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.....Sketch book
.....“To draw is to know, to paint is to share”

 

Staithes Boat.
Moored boats such as this never look or feel the same way twice due to the movement of the tide.
A quick watercolour sketch can often capture that ‘feel'.


Giovanni e Paolo. Preparatory sketch.
Every time I emerge from the alley onto the bridge from where this scene unfolds, I am without fail stopped in my tracks.
A constantly changing scene is due to the busy thoroughfare to some extent, but some how it is that magical
Venetian light playing on a multitude of surfaces, illuminating or concealing huge chunks of wonderful architecture,
that truly steals the show.

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Gondoliers
With these very rapid little sketches, I am looking for the movements and rhythms involved in
the dance-like business of propelling a gondola.

 

Santa Maria Della Salute and The Grand Canal .

This little on-site sketch was done as a demonstration on one of the workshops I am lucky enough to occasionally tutor,
this is one of my favourite spots on the Grand Canal .

 

Chioggia Boatyard preparatory drawing

A complex mixture of the old and the new. Whenever I visit Chioggia , this wonderful boatyard is usually my first stop.

 

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Quarry Donkey. Pencil

I came across these gentle, strong and patient donkeys carrying stone in one of the may quarries one finds
in the mountains of Southern Spain. Enjoying a well earned lunch- time rest, they stood in a little
group still wearing their canvas panniers. "The Spanish equivalent of a builders van".

 

Coniston Cottages

For generations home to the people that have shaped the Lake District . I imagine the heavy tread of tired
workers returning to an open fire and a hot meal.

 

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