Sketch of Pen y Fan from Dare Valley

Pen y Fan

This is a fairly distant view of the Mountain from near Aberdare. Pencil and watercolour on mountboard. Experimenting with base materials that won't warp. Approx 4 inches x 2 1/2 inches.

Darren y ysgol walls

Sheep folds mixed media

Beautiful old dry stone walls near Dare Valley Country Park, gradually collapsing

Bwllfa Dare

Bwllfa Dare cottages with Farm on left

Mixed media  sketch.

Bwllfa Farm

Bwllfa Farm at Dare Valley Country Park

Plein air sketch of Bwllfa farm from opposite side of valley. Mixed media, wax resist and acrylic ink.

Wind Farm above Bwllfa Dare

This plein air sketch was made a couple of weeks ago. Oil on hardboard approx 7 x 5 inches. Yellow ochre ground (PY 42 pigment).

On the beach near Burry Holm

Mixed media sea shells

Lots of sea shells including these and razor shells. Large numbers of washed up jelly fish too.

Port Eynon Collage

Port Eynon

View of Port Eynon from earlier this summer.

Horton

Also sketch from earlier this week of Horton

Penarth Pier

Penarth Pier;  pen and wash

Between Penarth and Cardiff Baylooking towards the barrage

Penarth Pier

Looking toward the barrage

Mixed media sketches on a cold November afternoon

Latest sketchbook

The Skirrid

 The Skirrid from the Blorenge

Mixed media, watercolour, drawing ink, oil pastel on paper, about 8 x 5 inches

Church Drawings and sketches

Llanelli near Gilwern ink and wash sketch

Llanelli near Gilwern, ink sketch

Llanblethian ink sketch

Pendoylan Church. Ink and wash.





Gadlys Chapel

Acrylic on hardboard sketch of the ex chapel in Railway Street, Gadlys. See previous post in October 2010 with the finished linocut. 8"x6".

Backs of houses

Aberdare, sketch of backs of houses in the rain and generally overcast. Acrylic on board, 6" x 8".

trees

Sketching young trees without looking at the paper while drawing. Really like the results, don't know why!
This process called blind contour drawing and accredited to book about drawing by Kimon Nicoloides