WHAT'S HERE

Some 6,500 sketches (produced using a field kit detailed below), photos of over a 1,000 table top abstract sculptures and more than 3,000 portraits. (see Sculpture park and Portraits in Albums for the full collections).

Equipment and materials

Sketches are currently made with a B lead in a Faber-Castell clutch pencil while some earlier work used a Staedtler permanent ink pen (.05mm) or a biro (in meetings). Paints are held in a 'legacy' Winsor & Newton field brush box butchered to hold 44 'artist quality' half pan Winsor & Newton watercolours. Sketch books are A6 Winsor & Newton spiral bound with 170gsm/80lb. paper all applied with a medium Sakura Koi water brush -portraits are sometimes painted with field brushes: a Pro-Arte Prolene Plus or the sadly no longer available Winsor & Newton metal sheathed variety.

PRINCIPLES

•Sketch and paint what's in front of you...

•Work without hesitation...

•Finish everything you start...

•Post everything regardless of merit...

•Take less than an hour...

•Produce at least as many sketches as there are days in each month...