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I use sketchbooks for drafting ideas and trying out compositions as well as simply sketching
Digger & Dumper
In the church car park, Bockingford 140lb 16x12"
Pickle at Banff Marina
Line and wash sketch of a ketch at Banff Marina in double a5 sketchbook.
Shadow Climbing
On Bockingford 12x16"
Fyvie Castle Walled Garden
Double A5 sketchbook line and wash. Too windy to paint today!
Fyvie Castle
Plein air, A5x2 line and wash
Meldrum Sky
Skyscape on a thundery showery day, looking toward Bennachie from Oldmeldrum
A5x2 skketchbook line. Watercolour.
A5x2 skketchbook line. Watercolour.
Happy Tractor 2
A4 line and wash from a Pixabay photo for an Artkula challenge
Happy Tractor 1
Unipin 0.5mm line sjketch (with a few heavier Unipin BR lines. For a line and wash sketch, A4.
Ballater Station A4 working sketch to get my head round the building!
Nearly home
A4 layout sketch on multimedia paper,
Across Glencoe
A4 layout sketch, multimedia paper
Happy Wood
Random coloured forest scene to see how far colours cna stretch and still read like a wood. A4 multimedia paper
To Glen Brittle
On the road round to Glen Brittle, Sky, A4
The Needles Eye
Plein air sketch of TNE at Tarlair, but from the side. Double A5sketchbook line and wash
My sketch kit
A5 line and wash (the inside cover of my sketchbook -waorks as a swatch card for my small palettes)
Nearly Home
Layout sketch on A4 multimedia
Boolet
LAyout sketch for a commissioned pet portrait. Figuring out the mouth mainly. A4 multimedia paper
The Swan, and Fyvie Castle
Two plein air sketches across my Double A5 landscape sketchbook.
Pocket Dump
A4, as an Artkula 'challenge'
Skandi Kvitsøy
A5 sketch, just as she sailed away so 5 minutes worth.
Gicht
A5 double landscape, line adnd wsah. Sketched while waiting for a plein air watercolour to dry, this was the view 180degrees away from the subject (Gicht castle)
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