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I love your work & wish I could be as good as you.... I hate to be watched so that limits it for me. Could you please say what pen & what sketch book you use, thanks

Posted by Karen D on Sun 21 May 19:59:42

Karen, Thanks for the compliment. Maybe when you are as old as I am you'll be happy with your work. I love using a sketch book - the work that I produce in them is for me and only me. I have plenty of pages that don't really work but everyone conjours up memories of where I have been, what I was doing - they please me and if they please others I am more than happy. I will scribble in my sketch book anywhere - airports, pubs, London Streets, New York Squares .... anywhere! And I have met some wonderful people and made lifelong friends - all through the use of a sketchbook! Try it. The pens I use are usually Edding 1800 size .07 but I'll use any. same with Sketch books. They are A4 portrait format and I mostly work across two pages - I'm using Daaler-Rodney at present. I also carry a tiny watercolour box which has its own water supply and brush. It is over 70 years ago that I was encouraged to use a sketch book regularly by my art reacher at school. I am ever grateful to him.

Posted by Denis Pickles on Sun 21 May 20:50:44

I love this scene.

Posted by Janet Humphrey on Sun 21 May 21:17:53

I never tire of looking at your amazing drawings. Each one is worth spending a few minutes studying I hope the proprietor was pleased with the drawing. Its wonderful.

Posted by Diana Boanas SWA on Sun 21 May 21:36:17

I agree with the above comments, Denis. Your pen and watercolours are fantastic.

Posted by Mia Ketels on Sun 21 May 21:39:32

Good on you Dennis...super sketch!

Posted by Sylvia Pawson on Mon 22 May 09:33:34

I am amazed by your work.

Posted by Linda Wilson on Mon 22 May 11:40:30

Two great sketches Denis, lovely to look at.

Posted by Margaret Beynon on Mon 22 May 15:15:46

Hang on Studio Wall

21/05/2017

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I'd been painting the usual view from the little shelter on the sea front at Woodbridge - you know, the one with the Tide Mill and the boats moored up on the quay side. The proprietor of the cafe came to see what I was doing and moaned that nobody ever painted his establishment. So I did!

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Denis Pickles

I’ve been drawing and painting for a long, long time. The first picture I have still in my possession is dated November 1939 and 83 years on I’m still at it! Keen on art at school and would have dearly liked a job with an art connection- I had hoped to get into architecture, but it did not happen.…

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