WatercolourPainting

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

91-2785 – Loungers

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This sketch was started in “Edmundo Lounge” in Bury St. Edmunds where we had lunch on the third full day of our holiday. We drove to Bury to do some shopping for camping gear, in anticipation of the next leg of our trip, when we will camp at the Womad (World of Music Arts and Dance) festival in Wiltshire. I finished off the sketch at home.

Mon-22-Jul-2024

90-2779 – Packing begins

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I wasn’t really concentrating on this sketch – I just wanted to finish the last page in my little A6 sketchbook before we travelled. Sketching in a smaller format and on simple cartridge paper has been a useful experience (it has helped me sketch faster, when I have less time and to focus on simpler scenes)…but I will be happy to go back to a slightly bigger format with better paper.

Mon-15-Jul-2024

90-2778 – Established before I was born

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Here is a quick little sketch I did when we visited SM Aura shopping mall to buy #Pasalubong to take to the UK on our upcoming holiday. Buying pasalubong is the Filipino tradition of travellers bringing gifts from their destination to people back home (so we are kind of doing that in reverse). We had a snack and coffee at the #CoffeeBeanAndTeaLeaf having failed to find a single speck of vegetarian food at the food court, even though they have recently refurbished it (grumble, grumble).

Sun-14-Jul-2024

90-2776-7 – Life drawing and Dredheart

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Life drawing

Here are the other sketches I did at the #LifeDrawing session with the #SilawArtistCollective, in Eastwood, the other day. Each pose was about 20-25 minutes and I used ink, #WatercolourPencils and #Watercolour paints. The first of these was a bit of a disaster…I struggled with the face…and the proportions. But the last one was the one I was most satisfied with – it helped that the pose was compact and uncomplicated.

Dredheart

Thu-11-Jul-2024

90-2772 – Birthday flowers

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These days, every time one of us gets flowers, I sketch them. These pink roses, carnations and daisies were given to my wife for her birthday, by our daughters. I sketched them using #Derwent watercolour pencils and a little bit of ink.

Tue-9-Jul-2024

90-2771 – Cosmic Kapitolyo

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This sketch was done while we waited for dinner at a new vegetarian restaurant (for us) that we went out to for my wife’s birthday. The waiter told us that they opened during the pandemic…they have another branch in Makati, Barangay Poblacion. The food was great, served quickly and the place has a nice atmosphere. It was strange though that there didn’t seem to be a single sign on the road to tell you the place was there – we had to ask someone in order to find it.

Sun-7-Jul-2024

90-2770 – Minor basilica and archdiocesan shrine

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This sketch was done at the local Saint Anne Parish church, where we cycled to last Sunday morning. The first church on this site was built in 1609 but after several earthquakes the present one was started in 1883. I sketched here way back on 12 May 2016, when I first began sketching regularly (see post No.40 on my blog). That time I managed to get the whole tower in…my current small format sketchbook tends to make me focus on details…that’s my excuse anyway.

Sun-7-Jul-2024

90-2769 – Elephant ears with breakfast

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This little sketch was done outside the #BrewHilde coffee shop down the road from us, when we went out for a walk and breakfast on my wife’s birthday morning. I’ve sketched here many times before, but this time these plants caught my eye – they are commonly knows as elephant-ear plants but the scientific name is Colocasia.

Sat-6-Jul-2024