Riverside buildings at Walberswick

Lovely sponteneous sketching Denis.

You found a really good viewpoint Denis. Superb composition and I like how you left the foreground empty.

Nice work Dennis and I know it very well brings back happy memories

Ibolya, Thanks for your comment. I didn’t leave the foreground empty on purpose. The sketch was done quickly and I concentrated on the subject matter which attracted me in the first place - the buildings which are mostly black. It just turned out that way.

Have you seen our sketching competition Denis? David Bellamy's first challenge is looking for exactly this sort of thing!

I also like the contrast between the buildings and the blank areas.

To the Painters on Line team, I presume that you are referring to the Adebanji Alade sketching competition - David Bellamy is not mentioned In my copy of The Artist! Perhaps there is a different competition set for readers of Leisure Painter? I did wonder whether to give it a whirl, but I was somewhat put off by the topic for sketches for the April leg of the competition - ‘Sketch Your Children, Grandchildren or Children of Friends or Neighbours.’ I am an ancient widower, my children are either retired or are approaching retirement, I have no grandchildren and I am pretty sure that I would get some funny looks if I knocked on doors and asked if I could sketch their kids. I know that schools do not approve of old men photographing kids in the playground. Now if the topic was urban landscapes, harbour scenes, country lanes and villages, clients in a pub, ships etc., I would probably have been first in the queue to enter. Put me right. If I sketched children using a magazine photograph for the competition, wouldn’t I be infringing copyright laws if I used such sketches without first getting permission? Denis

Your sketches are beautiful...i love to imagine you sketching them in situ! It's so good to look into other artists' sketchbooks...with their permission of course! It's like holding a conversation with them!