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...]
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...]
10-01-2015 Art Journal
After weeks of rainy days we finally get some clear blue sky. So after wrapping up under several layers of clothes hats and gloves we ventured out to do some sketching. But we could not decide where to go. Chaddesley Corbett is a lovely little village that's only a few miles from home so we head in that general direction. As soon as you drive into the village you are … [Read more...]
Art Journal The End of 2015
Hope you all had a Merry Christmas Just a couple of Art Journal entries to finish the year. Looking back through this mini journal has made me realise, 1- how quickly the year has flown by and 2-I am not drawing enough 3-I have not been posting enough on this blog. I can not do much about number 1 but I can do something this year about the other two. So … [Read more...]