Drawing with pigment, a local and loved hill, 'Yr Eifl'

 

Beech Tree

mixed media, 28 cm x 21 cm

 

Oil pastel and watercolour drawing from 2021

 

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Beech tree

28 cm x 20.5 cm soft pastel and pigment drawing

Pine tree shaped by the wind

A4 soft pastel drawing

 

Coastal pine wood in Eastern Spain

26 cm x 21 cm wax pencil drawing

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Spanish pine wood by the sea

19.5 cm x 15.5 cm drawing with pigment

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A4 watercolour and pigment drawing of water

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A4 (21 cm x 29.7 cm) pigment and soft pastel drawing of a coastal pinewood.

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Post cards from a collection made for the Write For Rights campaign for prisoners of conscience; people who are threatened, silenced or imprisoned for advocating for human rights or for the environment. The idea behind the cards is to bring hope and show them that they have supporters all over the world.

 

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This plein air drawing was done in woods local to me.

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Detail from a recent experimental drawing on board - watercolour paint on oil mix paint ground.

This autumn I've been watching and waiting for leaves to fall into the stream, to watch them sail downstream.

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A soft pastel drawing I made recently in Boduan Sanctuary, which is both a wood and burial ground. 

In this peaceful wood by the road I found one of the older trees, a pine, and I sat down to draw while a robin befriended me. The drawing wasn't my best, but when I held it up to the light, shadows worked like magic to echo the melancholic atmosphere of the place and reminded me of the shadow theatre of the past.

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Watercolour pencil drawing from one of several walks over the summer. 

This is the "tripod tree", my name for a sycamore in my neighbourhood.

It is hollowed inside, supported by its three "legs" of the bark that remains.

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Detail from a recent painting on paper

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Unbelievably, summer is here, in some shape or form! 

These butterflies were created by my neighbour's children in an activity we did recently. First, paint a simple background on card. Next, fold a strip of paper and cut B-shapes out of it. It makes the shape of a butterfly. Add a blob of fairly wet paint onto the butterfly. Fold in half and press the wings together (very gently!). Open the butterfly to see its unique pattern. When the paint is dry place the butterflies onto the painted background card. And there you have it, a summery decoration full of fluttering butterflies!

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Mixed media drawing on paper

There seems to be a whole world in a butterfly's wing. 

In summer the field is peppered with these small blue butterflies. To think, each one with its very own world!

 

Soft pastel and pencil drawing of brimstone butterfly.

I watch a butterfly stop to rest, lighter than a feather. It is so delicate, often with frayed wings. I ask myself, how can it survive so well in this world? Its power is invisible, yet it must be there nevertheless, power which allows it to sail through this troubled world.

 

Nature doesn't discriminate, and what it has to show, is there for anyone who wants to know.