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98-2970 – Yoghurt maker

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It might seem like there has been a gap in my sketching habit, but I’ve been spending my evenings finishing off partly done sketches, instead of doing new ones. It’s not a great habit to leave them partly done – painting from photos afterwards doesn’t work for me and the colours never seem right. I looked at the #DrawTipTuesday video of @KoosjeKoene on YouTube to get the inspiration for this – she suggested experimenting with some unused materials. So I picked up some old coloured pencils (not water soluble) and drew our yoghurt maker (it was my wife’s excellent idea to get one – it was quite cheap and makes lots of little pots from a starter).

Wed-22-Jan-2025

96-2895 – Straw

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The only idea I came up with to follow the #Inktober2024 prompt for Day 25 of “scarecrow”, was to sketch this. A few Christmas’s ago we received a table decoration consisting of a vase with this decorative bunch of dried grass (my thinking was that this is straw and that is what, traditionally, scarecrows are stuffed with)…which these days is looking a little forlorn.

Thu-14-Nov-2024

92-2802 – Scared by cows near Lantern Pike

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On Saturday 3 August day we took a train up to Stockport from Manchester to meet with a friend and then did a hike from Hayfield to Lantern Pike. This of course included a stop at the pub on the way and we ended up having an excellent simple dinner at “The Village Chippy” in Hayfield before heading back to Manchester. I started this sketch when we stopped for a rest (but didn’t finish, hence the delay in posting it)…there were some scary looking cows in the field behind us (actually bulls I think), with huge horns.

Sat-3-Aug-2024

92-2806-7 – Manchester to Slaithwaite and Huddersfield Narrow

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These sketches were done on our day out to visit where our daughter works, along the Huddersfield Narrow canal. The first sketch was done in the train on the way and the second where we stopped for lunch at Lock No.29 E. The Huddersfield Narrow scales the Pennines and has very narrow locks. We walked as far as the Standedge Tunnel which is the longest, deepest and highest canal tunnel in the country.

Tue-6-Aug-2024

92-2804-5 – Heaton Park

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On Monday 5th August we visited Heaton Park – taking the tram out of Manchester. I did two sketches there – the first when we sat down for a coffee and lunch at the Lakeside Cafe (where the park was crowded with families and lots of push chairs…this sketch is barely finished and was done really quickly). The second was done when we stopped for rest in the animal centre area where there were some Highland Cattle (just about visible as blobs in my sketch).

Mon-5-Aug-2024

92-2800 – Five guys ice cream

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Here is the first sketch I did on the day after we arrived in Manchester. We had planned to go hot air ballooning early in the morning but it didn’t push through because of poor weather in York. Instead we just hung out at our daughters house, filled the rental car with a ‘big shop’ and went out for a little walk (in a little park near the university of Manchester where I sketched this woman snoozing) and a milk shake. My milk shake was banana and peanut butter flavour…so thick it was like ice cream.

Thu-1-Aug-2024

91-2795-8 – WOMAD day 3

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Yoga in the arboretum

Here are the sketches I did on our last day at Womad. The first was done while my wife and daughter did yoga in the Arboretum (the festival is held in the grounds of Charlton Park, in Wiltshire). In another area, some of us joined ‘Sew-mad’ – where people were sewing bunting (along the theme of the cosmos?) and I did my second sketch. The third sketch was done at the “Taste The World” stage, where artists performed, were interviewed and cooked their favourite dishes (in this one I tasted mango ceviche). The last sketch was some during the performance of Enji who is Mongolian but sings jazz and bossa nova. The highlight of the night for me was to watch Baaba Maal!

Sew-mad
Los Sara Fontan
Enji – Really lovely stuff

Sun-28-Jul-2024