The Arcade in Accrington – Sketching With Ribble Urban Sketchers


I had the opportunity to join the Ribble Urban Sketchers Group. We met at the Arcade in Accrington. I have created a blue watercolour pencil sketch which I later enhanced with gloss.

How To Draw Tree Foliage With Coloured Pencils


My latest drawing with Derwent Lightfast Coloured Pencils is of rich green poplar trees in Castle Park. In this post you can find out about the drawing techniques I used to create the leaves, grass, sky, shadow etc.

Introducing Derwent Lightfast Oil Pencils


Lightfast Coloured Pencils are pencils that have a pigment that is resistant to fading and discolouration when exposed to light. The sheer variety of colours and how they can be used allow me more creative freedom without the mess of mixing paint.

What can be seen in perspective?


PERSPECTIVE Perspective is about how we see things in space. It can be difficult to understand at first. However, having the ability to see in perspective is the key to capture something intangible such as the space around us, and enclose this 3D form in a flat, white piece of paper! Done it right, itContinue reading “What can be seen in perspective?”

Clitheroe – oil painting of the town


This is my new picture which I am currently working on. I managed to record its beginnings. In this short video see how my town is emerging from nothingness of the canvas. Through lines and shapes, strokes of a brush, splashes of ink; I am forming, creating and bringing to life a town, my town, formed fromContinue reading “Clitheroe – oil painting of the town”