After what seems like forever, in fact it was only last September, Lore and I head down to Sidmouth for another holiday. We hire a static caravan near Cullompton for a few days to enjoy the peace and quiet. With plenty of sketching, walks my the coast, coffee and cake. The drive is only about two and a half hours but we like to break the journey up with a stop of in Thornbury. … [Read more...]
13-03-2016 Art Journal
Well finally Spring seems to have arrived. The sun is out and the temperature has risen by a couple of degrees so off we head out to Bewdley for a walk by the river and coffee in Piccolo's. This is a quick sketch from my mini journal of Bewdley bridge, can you spot the swans? This is another entry from my mini Art Journal. On the 1st of February I … [Read more...]
22-01-2016 Art Journal
We managed to get out on Sunday. A trip into Worcester to our favourite coffee shop, Papa Joes. Then a browse around Waterstones while Lore did a spot of shopping. This just highlights why you should carry a sketch book at all times. You never know when you are going to get 10 minutes just to scribble down a sketch. Luckily for me they have some comfortable chairs upstairs in … [Read more...]
18-01-2015 Coffee Shop Sketching
Today we ventured out to one of our favourite coffee shop haunts, Webbs of Wychbold. It is a garden centre but also has a number of interesting additional shops one of which is Hobby Craft. It's one of my pass times looking around crafting supplies along with second hand book shopping and hunting down good independent coffee shops. As usual the coffee was excellent and the … [Read more...]
17-01-2016 Sketchbook
A wonderful chilled out Sunday. Sketching, reading and coffee drinking. Cold and wet outside so here is a quick sketch of the table before the coffee set up arrives. I have done it again, started reading a new book while I am only half way through another. To be fair though it is the spectacular daytripper by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba so you can't really blame … [Read more...]