I kept at a distance so no one thought I was attempting to join in.

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I sat near another man on a stool with a view preparing a water container and plate. I asked if he was a painter but he was making his breakfast!

Ancienne glacière du port

Séance du vendredi 5/02/2021 avec les Urban Sketchers Lorient.

Croquis encre et aquarelle sur une étude d'aquarelle "Les mouettes rieuses" - papier Saunders Waterford 30x30 cm

Old cooler fishing port

Session of Friday 5/02/2021 with the Urban Sketchers Lorient.

Ink and watercolor sketches on a watercolor study "black-headed Gulls" - Saunders Waterford paper 30x30 cm

Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Watercolor

9" x 12"

5-19-2015

「浜松城光園」

静岡県浜松市

透明水彩絵具/紙厚

22.86 cm x 30.48 cm

2015年5月19日

The owner of the boat on the left told me he bought it in the Netherlands and sailed it here. It was built in 1928 and he’s converting it into a house boat.

WV1348/2008/2026

An ink painting from 2008 digital reworked with the digital means anno 2026.

"And I sang Dixie, as he died

But people just walked on by, as I cried

The bottle had robbed him, of all his rebel pride

So I sang Dixie, as he died

He said listen to me son while you still can, run back home to that Southern land

Don't you see, what life here has done to me

Then he closed those old blue eyes, and fell limp, against my side

No more pain, and now he's safe back home in Dixie..."

I SANG DIXIE (excerpt) - Dwight Yoakam, 1988.

My wife persuaded me to draw this. I think she wanted to read her book at this idylic spot.

Drawn with Karlsruhe Urban Sketchers.

lametta-ka.de/leshop/

I’ll be at Lametta in Karlsruhe, pop round for a chat:

Geöffnet am Freitag, den 8. Dezember von 15 bis 22 Uhr und Samstag, den 9. Dezember von 12 bis 20 Uhr.

www.lametta-ka.de/index.html

Drive along a country road on a pleasant winter day and you'll be enchanted by the way that the snow has transformed the landscape. This is another scene from the Upper Gatineau Valley in Québec not far from my previous sketch. This area has more hills (with treacherous roads) and open spaces resembling a vast sloping lake. The pen-and-ink drawing brings out the high contrasts we find in winter scenes.

Roulez le long d'une route de campagne par une agréable journée d'hiver et vous serez enchanté par la façon dont la neige a transformé le paysage. Voici une autre scène de la Haute Vallée de la Gatineau au Québec non loin de mon croquis précédent. Cette endroit a plus de collines (avec des routes dangereuses) et des espaces ouverts ressemblant à un vaste lac en pente. Le dessin à la plume fait ressortir les hauts contrastes que l'on retrouve dans les scènes d'hiver.

Avec le groupe Usk Lorient, dans l'enceinte du port de commerce de Lorient.

Aquarelle et encre sur papier naturel

This was a commissioned drawing.

Drawn in rapidly fading light.

I saw on Street View how amazing this building was inside. When I got there it was shut and raining. Managed to find this view in a glassed in lift. The gale still blasted the rain inside somehow. It’s overloaed with classical decoration. I gave up after I got this far.

I hung around suspiciously checking this place out before I started sketching.

Séance ensoleillée avec les Urban Sketcher Lorient samedi 27 février 2021.

Aquarelle, encre et collage d'un extrait de poème de Camille Jaouën sur watercolor book Hahnemühle.

Sunny session with the Urban Sketcher Lorient Saturday 27 February 2021

Watercolour, ink and collage of an excerpt of Camille Jaouën’s poem on Hahnemühle’s watercolor book.

The trees really were at those angles.

This was a commissioned drawing.

I got this far before it was time for breakfast.

I still love overhead cables.

I used to live 200 m from here and I never knew this place existed.

Recently, I had another opportunity to do some quick sketching in downtown Ottawa and parked on a part of Coburg Street that borders on the Lowertown neighbourhood. There's a lot of older houses here, some with a lot of character and some that need a little repair. I thought that this street corner would make a good subject for an ink drawing with the snow making everything look so clean. I sketched it in pencil, took some reference photos and finished it at home.

Ink drawing in a Leuchtturm1917 sketchbook using Sakura Micron and Gellyroll Moonlight pens, 20 x 14 cm (8 x 5.5 inches).

Récemment, j'ai eu l'occasion de faire un croquis rapide au centre-ville d'Ottawa et je me suis stationé sur un coin de la rue Coburg, qui borde le quartier de la Basse-Ville. On y trouve beaucoup de maisons anciennes, certaines pleines de charme, d'autres qui auraient besoin de quelques réparations. J'ai pensé que ce coin de rue ferait un bon sujet pour un dessin à l'encre, la neige rendant le paysage si propre. J'ai fait un croquis au crayon, pris quelques photos de référence et finalisé le dessin chez moi.

Dessin à l'encre dans un carnet Leuchtturm1917, avec des stylos Sakura Micron et Gellyroll Moonlight, 20 x 14 cm (8 x 5,5 pouces).

Drawn with Karlsruhe Urban Sketchers.