Category Archives: Inspiration

A few angels

On the way to Belle Vue Park, I walked through St Woollos Cemetery, which has some gorgeous Victorian angels on tombstones.  I decided to take photos of a few of them with a view to using them as inspiration.  And, … Continue reading

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September Reeds

More diagonals: The flowers are in full bloom if you can call it that.   The colours remind me of my old school uniform: bottle green and purple.  That was based on a thistle.  These ones are much more subtle. … Continue reading

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Sketchbook inspirations

My Sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project is coming on apace.  I haven’t photographed many of the pages recently but here are a few photos I’ve taken as inspiration – keeping to a ‘lines and grids’ theme, with a focus on … Continue reading

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August Reeds

Lots of diagonal movement this month… And the reed heads had these purple flowers which will become the seed heads.

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More sketchbook stuff….

My sketchbook is progressing.  I have gessoed a lot of pages in preparation for painting and have also glued several together to make them thicker. Continuing my theme of shadows over bridges,  I inadvertently drew on one upside down so … Continue reading

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July Reeds

Oops, it’s August and I forgot to post pics of the July reeds, but I did take these photos in July, honest gov! They had got much greener. Strong diagonals: Less of the wave like effect.  Or maybe I had … Continue reading

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