Sketchbook practice

Some recent bits from my sketchbook. These are just intended as practice and memory-aid pieces.

2 minute sketch of lady spinning wool at market.

Bird feeder

Figure photographing loch at Glencoe

Glencoe loch and Pap of Glencoe mountain

Indoor perspectives (I might have posted this previously)

Mother  & chick sparrows

Mother  & chick sparrows 2

Two exercises from book Drawing with te Right Side of the Brain. The idea was to copy drawings from the book but to do them upside down.

Recent sketches

Looking along the beach just after sunset. I liked the sky, much of which is cloud shadows from the set sun.

A rowan tree coming into leaf on the sdie of Loch Etive.

Towards Ben Lora with part of Connel Bridge. Viewed from the seat at the south side of the bridge over the entrance to Loch Etive as a fast tide was ebbing.

Pastel colour exercise

The brief was to produce an A2 sized work using pastels to show the inner detail of fruit or veg.

A Freesia and a Sunset

Freesia. 12"x10" Watercolour pencils.

Sunset over Mull from Connel Bridge

Acrylic 16"x12" Composed using knife painting. Based on the same original photo as I used in this earlier version.

Loch Creran monochrome

Acrylic 12"x10" I used monochrome tones blended from yellow, white and little red for this view looking over Loch Creran from the north end of Benderloch.

View from Iona

Acrylic. Looking from the isle of Iona.

Iona beach and abbey

Acrylic 16"x12"

Beach seen from the north end of Iona wit the abbey in the distance.

Loch Ness – autumn light

Acrylic 12”x16”. From a photo we took on the side of Loch Ness last month.

Easedale

Gouache 16”x12” Based on a photo taken near Easedale island, Argyll

Waterfall near Loch Ness

Acrylic 16”x12”
The falls at Invermoriston on the side of Loch Ness.
The autumn colours were very good this year.

Autumn Tints River Thames

Acrylic 16”x12”

Roses. Poppies & Apples

 
Acrylic 10” x 7”

Abstracts x 2

Two abstract pictures in acrylic on board then photographed to bring out the images.

 
“Mountain Glacier”

 
“Waterfall”

Peninsula seascape

Done on canvas in acrylics. Approx 12”x10” 

Boat on beach

Gouache on paper 16”x10”

Loch Etive and the Isle of Mull

Painted in acrylic on the shore of Loch Etive at our evening class yesterday. Looking east to the hills on the isle of Mull. The weather had turned cooler after a prolonged dry spell and beams of sunlight sneaked through the dark clouds out over the Atlantic.
Acrylic 16"x 12". Predominantly knife work with some brushwork to finish off.

On beach south of Benderloch

Two views from the same beach just south of Benderloch village.
Both are pastel 12"x 9"

Looking east to the Isle of Mull as dusk approaches.


Looking east towards the cottage earlier in the evening.

Rhugarbh, north of Benderloch

Evening looking towards the Morvern hills.
Pastel 12"x 9"

Iona

This is my latest work. Based on an original by Peploe, one of the Scottish Colourists school who did a lot of paintings on the isle of Iona in the early 20th century. Mine is in pastels.

St Columbas Bay, Loch Creran

"St Columbas Bay, Loch Creran
Painted this evening on the banks of the loch.
Acrylic.