Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
Those are nice @Salar
Many Thanks, Drawing in the open sharpens your skills.
I prefer pencils for sketching outdoors compared to ink or watercolour as it suits my style better.
I've been painting again
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Many Thanks, Drawing in the open sharpens your skills.
I prefer pencils for sketching outdoors compared to ink or watercolour as it suits my style better.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I bet it sharpens the skills, especially if you're sketching someplace you don't intend to go back to in the near future, or it's some kind of special one-off event.
Will admit, outdoor sketching is not my forte, as I don't have a good eye for landscapes.
So I take my hat off to anyone who can do it well. 
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
I doff my cap to everyone on this thread , I cant even draw a wavy line, my daughter and granddaughter are very artistic, no idea where they get it from as mrs roadrash is the same as me
, I cant even draw a wavy line, my daughter and granddaughter are very artistic, no idea where they get it from as mrs roadrash is the same as me
Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
I'm fortunate where I live, plenty of rural subject matter, sea and countryside.
When the weather gets better, probably spring I've a bit of a hike planned up some local hills / mountains to sketch up derelict quarry and mine workings. I'll take the dog for company.
My work sometimes takes me out surveying so I'm used to standing in a street with a pad.
I once had to survey a listed five storey Victorian building, right bang in the centre of a busy city at midday.
The only place I could stand to sketch and photograph was on the opposite side of the road right next to a pedestrian crossing outside of Wetherspoons, with umpteen people crossing the road, some under the influence.
I was there for at least 40 minutes and not one person asked or looked at what I was up to. (I didn't really need to sketch in such detail, but it was a good excuse)
Most people these days are wrapped up in their own worlds and just leave you alone.
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Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Guess it's what you're used to, really.
And one's choice of subject matter.I've always found the opposite - that people come up and bother me when I do sketch outdoors, ergo I don't tend to, because I hate being bothered. I'm very shy and self-conscious, so am far more comfortable working indoors from photos.
Think it's as much about being in the right "head space" as it is about being able to put what you see onto paper.
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
With me, I need to be in the right shed-space otherwise I tend to get too emulsional....
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
:-). Well I think we’ll just gloss over that one....Brushing up your puns, are we?
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
These yolks are so bad I’m starting to lose my tempera....Don't try and draw it out...
Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
I'm no extrovert and it does take a bit of a push of self confidence to do it
. But I find once I get going I get lost in the drawing.Strangely, I feel more self-conscious when I'm using a camera.
Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
I'm no extrovert and it does take a bit of a push of self confidence to do it
Strangely, I feel more self-conscious when I'm using a camera.
In that, I'm the total opposite.
I did a decade as a motorsports photographer and journalist. 
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
When I managed to find time to sit down and paint over the holidays, I had some fun with this: Henri Toivonen / Fred Gallagher, Opel Manta 400, 1983 Acropolis Rally. 12 x 8 inch pen & watercolour.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Did this one before Christmas, but only just got round to putting it on the flatbed scanner. My tribute to Russell Brookes, who we sadly lost late last year. Russell was a contemporary of drivers like Henri Toivonen, Ari Vatanen and Jimmy McRae, as well as Malcolm Wilson and Gwyndaf Evans but to name a few. So, Russell Brookes / Paul White, 1979 RAC Rally, Ford Escort RS1800. Coloured pencil on Daler Murano pastel paper, 11 x 8 inches.
For you car nerds, the '79 RAC was the last hurrah for the Boreham-based works Ford team - in '80 and '81, the cars were prepared by Dave Sutton.
For you car nerds, the '79 RAC was the last hurrah for the Boreham-based works Ford team - in '80 and '81, the cars were prepared by Dave Sutton.
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Reynard
Guru
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Back to pen and watercolour for this 8x6 inch painting. I recently acquired a collection of unpublished F3000 photos, and based this on one of them. Nominally it's for my scrapbook / archive project, but I am thinking of giving it as a gift to someone.
