Graphite Fine Art
The Isle of Purbeck is not an island at all. It’s surrounded on three sides by the sea, open sea to the east and south, Poole harbour to the north. It’s very much attached to the mainland on the west, where the lovely town of Wareham marks the gateway to the isle. I grew up…
The weather is just beginning to hint at warmer days to come here on the Dorset coast. Spring is in the air. I’ve had a busy start to the year with lots of lovely family things going on, plus a trip to Rome at the end of February. I love Rome! We also got to…
I started this website in 2013 with a post about the OHTO Graphic Liner. I’d discovered the pen via the Pen Addict and I was so very excited about how fantastic it was that I had to tell the world. (I still use them now.) Over time I reviewed hundreds of pens, notebooks and pencils…
It’s fairly obvious that I love drawing and a huge part of why I’m driven to make pictures is the inspiring area in which I’m lucky enough to live. I live in a town, by the sea, but one of the even more special (and unusual, I think) features of Weymouth is that it has…
I’ve been dabbling a little with silverpoint. This is what it says: drawing with a silver wire. The paper must be prepared with gesso first. The technique differed from pencil in that darker shades are built up with layering marks on top of each other rather than by pressure. This took me a little getting…