Carew Castle sketches

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That's a really great idea David - never thought of it before. A lovely quartet of sketches.

Posted by Adele Elgood on Fri 08 Jul 11:54:35

A series of very atmospheric drawings, superbly executed.

Posted by Seok Yam Chew on Fri 08 Jul 15:35:17

A great idea, really like your loose approach.

Posted by Fiona Phipps on Fri 08 Jul 18:35:03

These are wonderful

Posted by Ruthy flet on Sat 09 Jul 09:42:51

Thank you all for your compliments. I sometimes use pencil for the lighter shades but I really enjoy playing with the range of tones available from Unipin drawing pens with 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 & 0.8mm tips. And a set of those is usually cheaper than a tube of watercolour!

Posted by David Whitehead on Sat 09 Jul 11:50:09

Hang on Studio Wall

08/07/2016

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The screen on the back of a digital camera is a useful tool for sketching. Whilst on holiday it's not always possible to stop and sketch, so I take photos of attractive subjects. I then sketch these from the camera screen later. In this case I did four different ones using three widths of fibre pen nibs, which captured the feel of the castle more completely for me. I know the image to work from is small, but you can zoom in to enlarge hard to see parts of the image. I pencil the photo numbers in the lower left corner of each sketch so I can find it again on the camera if necessary.

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David Whitehead

I have always loved the British landscape – walking in it, photographing it and now, since early retirement, painting it in watercolour. I prefer to paint in the field and have experienced all the difficulties the British weather can present to a painter, from the sun drying the paint on the…

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