Here is a little sketch I did one morning (sticking to my habit of sketching before work while I still have jet lag) of my fruit bowl. Somehow my sketch made it look like I was hovering above the fruit – hence the title. I beefed up the colour with some scribbles of watercolour pencils…I do like the way I can get that dense layered look with them.
Wed-4-Mar-2020
Here is a doodle from last night – I’d made dinner but was waiting for my wife to come home…so I snacked on chocolates! Something my parents always told me not to do. The chocolates were a Christmas gift from a friend in the UK…you can tell we don’t eat many chocolates! I painted this starting with watercolour, then ink and then watercolour pencils – which I like to use because of the layering effects you can get.
Fri-12-Apr-2019
It’s been 20 years since we got married (last Wednesday 27). I think asters are the traditional flower for a 20th anniversary but the flower sellers could only show me sad looking little daisy-like flowers when I asked. So instead I bought these gorgeous roses for my wife. Difficult to draw but wonderful to look at and smell!
Fri-1-March-2019
Here is a quick sketch I did on Sunday while we had a coffee to psych ourselves up for our first batch of Christmas shopping. It might not be clear, but I was looking up at the ceiling over the top of a blue-grey padded bench. I did some extra work on this when I got home.
Sun-11-Nov-2018
Sometimes it just seems obvious what to sketch in the evening – I couldn’t help noticing that all these things on the coffee table were orange or yellow-orange…even the picture of Gandhi on his autobiography! The papaya comes from the organic market that we shop at on Sunday mornings – huge and very sweet.
Sun-21-Oct-2018
It’s no longer quiet by the swimming pool. Today there were hoards of little children running around playing and screaming at the top of their voices – I must be getting too old but it sets my nerves jangling.
Tue-18-Sep-2018
A fellow urban sketcher asked me to show what kit I used, so instead of posting a photo I decided to draw it. This shows my Winsor & Newton field box (still going strong after using it for 25 years), a fresh A5 sketchbook (gold line, white 140g/m2 hardback), a fold up pencil case from National Bookstore stuffed with Derwent watercolour pencils, various brushes (including a couple of Pentel water brushes) and fountain pens and at the back, my case logic bag which I stuff it all in. I can also fit a little fold up stool into the bag if I want to – though it makes it pretty heavy.
Tue-4-Sep-2018
Here is my sketch for yesterdays Doodlewash May challenge prompt of “fruit” – our fruit bowl (with apples) that I have draw lots and lots of times!
Thu-24-May-2018
Yesterday I joined the Philippines Urban sketchers at the Planetarium, Rizal Park for a sketch-walk – and a seven year anniversary of the group. Here is the first sketch I did of the Planetarium building.
Sat-19-May-2018
Here is my belated sketch for the Doodlewash May challenge prompt of “dolphins” on Monday 14th. We bought these dolphins in Romblon (an archipelagic province in the Philippines) where they have huge deposits of marble (enough to last 3 centuries according to Wikipedia).
Tue-15-May-2018
