Vancouver Island again, this time of the coast. Again a lot to do to get the atmosphere, but I like a challenge. If you’ve not been to Vancouver Island then go there, this is near Ucluelet, which is pronounced a little bit like “You clue less!” but with a ‘t’ on the end. Great place and the coast around there is very varied, very bracing and the people were lovely. Loads of hippies from the US went there in the 60’s to avoid the draft and Viet Nam, quite a lot have stayed, so it’s ‘cool man’. Continue reading “Oh so much!” Number 4

This is a chip van on Vancouver Island. All these drawings are taken from my photographs and this one was a bright blue summer day. The van was miniscule and the lady in there was sitting in a corner reading a book, I did not like to disturb her! Business was slow. Continue reading “Oh so much!” Number 3

This one’s in Canada too! There is much to do here to get the right atmosphere into the final print or prints. As you will see with all of these, they are all a little two dimensional and I intend to get the feel of distance into the final with the use of colour, added digitally. Like all these drawings, it has a way to go yet! Continue reading “Oh so much!” Number 2

Some of these might not make the cut, as they say in golf. Not that I’m the slightest bit interested in golf, a good walk spoiled! This is the first of a series of drawings and these are the originals, which I’ll spread over the next few days. This one is a view out of Canmore, from a holiday we took there a couple of years ago now. I’m intending to make prints of all those that pass muster, but they all need some digital interference before they get to the finishing line, or the eighteenth hole! They are all … Continue reading Oh so much to do!

Just some of the things we saw today. It would seem that the draught we have been having over here, only recently relieved by a smidgin of heavy rain, has done nothing to stop the abundance of sloes in Somerset. Walking down the Strawberry Line today, an old railway track that is now used as a cycle track and footpath, my chum Richard and I came across some wonderful sloes. They looked like bunches of healthy grapes on the ‘trackside’. Hopefully, someone will find a use for them. As I understand it they are wild members of the plum family. Mr and … Continue reading Sloe walk, sore feet, and Winston Churchill on a bike.