Category: picture

Burgh Island (sketch)

12 August 2016 By ian

Here is Burgh Island, where Agatha Christie went to write some of her books and Edward Windsor and Mrs Simpson went for some peace and quiet (or something). It’s cut off in high tide but at other times it’s possible to walk across. Pink Pig sketchbook, Platinum Carbon Pen and Ink, Sailor Brush Pen and […]

Peaceful Corfu (sketch)

5 August 2016 By ian

I’m very lucky to be able to go on holiday to different parts of the UK and Europe. Not long ago Julia and I were able to spend a few days on a beach in Corfu. This is the view we had. Pink Pig sketchbook, Platinum Carbon Pen and Ink, Sailor Brush Pen and Ink, […]

Quick Sketch from Amsterdam

29 July 2016 By ian

This is a quick sketch from last year’s trip to Amsterdam. It isn’t the greatest but it was done quickly, balancing on my lap, and it brings back nice memories of an unexpected trip. (We’d planned to go to Barcelona but a French air traffic strike scuppered that idea.)

Mam Tor – the Shivering Mountain (sketch)

22 July 2016 By ian

Mam Tor is a hill in the beautiful Peak District of Derbyshire. It’s known as the Shivering Mountain because it’s made up of very unstable layers of shale, which frequently slip. In fact these landslips have created in lots of little baby hills below: Mam Tor means Mother Hill. I started drawing this at the […]