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Stowe House and gardens...

Final stage of my watercolour showing the bridge at Stowe House. Designed to allow carriages to cross the Octagon Lake, it was originally higher over the water, but the Lake has risen over the centuries.


Posted on 07 March 2024

Stowe House and gardens...

A fifth stage of my watercolour showing Stowe House bridge - balustrade complete! Final stage will see cast shadows inside the bridge and foreground gravel path and grass verges.


Posted on 05 March 2024

Stowe House and gardens...

A fourth stage of my watercolour showing Stowe House bridge - moving on to the balustrade next! #palladianarchitecture #watercolour Stowe House #historical #bridge


Posted on 23 February 2024

The charm of the Forest...

never disappoints and this sketch celebrates the ever-changing light and atmosphere witnessed over an hour or two in one location. Sketchbook size 190 x 280mm on 140Ib Saunders Waterford NOT surface

Posted on 16 February 2024

Stowe House and gardens...

Stage #3. Just working across the bridge's decorated and weathered stone surfaces, columns and pediment. Basic washes in yellow ochre with touches of burnt sienna together with cobalt and cerulean blues with touches of alizarin crimson.

Posted on 12 February 2024

Stowe House and gardens...

Work in progress (stage two)

Posted on 04 February 2024

Another New Forest sketch...

Lovely weather in the Forest yesterday - best session so far this year! Much of the New Forest is waterlogged but this didn't deter two intrepid all-weather sketchers! Sketchbook size 190 x 280mm on 140Ib Saunders Waterford.

Posted on 27 January 2024

Stowe House and gardens...

Showing my pencil drawing on stretched Arches 140Ib paper ready for watercolour. Image size 410 x 360mm.

Posted on 17 January 2024

Some pen sketches...

done in the New Forest on a rather gloomy, cold and damp morning. A5 Sketchbook on cartridge paper using Jackson's pigment fineliners.

Posted on 13 January 2024


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