Drawn to the sound of mowing and boats squeaking on their moorings.

These trees were 40 cm tall.

This is about a third of the waterfall. I had to sketch using my rucksack as a screen against the spray.

Two people hiking with their dogs on the Isle of Skye. Pen and ink drawing.

Security guards came up to me to look at my sketch. I joked whether I have to move on if the sketch was rubbish. They really were checking me out and making sure I wasn’t sketching their building!

Yet another shop front sketch. Surprisingly drawn to the sound of 90s classic House. One local came up and said he likes pen and ink sketches but if he tried it himself he’d make a pig’s ear of it.

A van parked in the view so the VW isn’t very accurate.

I tried a couple of times to lure the crows with food to be able to sketch them close at hand but it never worked. They few down to eat only after I’d given up and gone. I sketched these as someone else fed them.

Drawn very quickly due to the midges.

Séance du vendredi avec le gorupe Usk Lorient

Aquarelle et encre sur carnet Moleskine format portrait

I was sat under this massive construction with water dripping and wearing a hard hat.

Ink on watercolour paper

Drawn to the sound of gulls and fancy cars driving past.

A local had a look at the sketch and said he couldn't draw but had to when studying botany, but plants are harder to notice when they're wrong compared to buildings. He said I have to draw the porch on this house. I told him I didn't intend to but I did in the end, he was right, it looks better for it.

Its quite a thrill to dig up pieces of pottery that date back 6000 years. This is what a group of volunteers under the direction of archaeologist, Ian Badgley, are doing now along the shoreline of the Ottawa River in the Leamy Lake Park. The dig has been organized during the month of August for several years now. Its slow work under a hot sun but some of the results have been encouraging.

C'est un véritable plaisir de déterrer des pièces de poterie datant de 6000 ans. C’est ce que fait actuellement un groupe de benévoles sous la direction de l’archéologue Ian Badgley, le long du littoral de la rivière des Outaouais, dans le parc du lac Leamy. La fouille a été organisée au cours du mois d'août depuis plusieurs années. C'est du travail lent sous un chaud soleil.

Ich zeige noch Bilder in Cafe Pan in Karlsruhe, und die suchen noch nach Mitarbeiter.

....so my attention has wandered off into the meadow. Just rolling with it as I play with this ink.

KWZI ~ Foggy Green on Bockingford 140 lb. watercolour paper

Rapidografo sobre papel, 14,8 x 21 cm, 2020

Sede del Instituto Distrital de Patrimonio Cultural (IDPC), ubicada en el Palomar del Príncipe, Bogotá D.C, Colombia. Dicho lugar fue inaugurado el 19 de septiembre del 2019.

Someone came up to me to see what I was sketching. He was a bit puzzled that I had my back to the medieval cathedral that all the tourists were photographing. I told him that the cathedral was too complicated.

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Drawn from the terrace at Remise.

Drawn to the sound of waterfalls and cuckoos. I didn’t have my stool with me so I had to use an abandoned chair from the sanatorium.

It's extremely rare that I'll spend time in a bar, but recently when I found out that singer-songwriter Ian Tamblyn was performing at the Black Sheep in Wakefield (Québec) I made an exception. Ian Tamblyn has recorded over 30 albums in his career beginning in 1976. While I certainly haven't heard all of them, I'm impressed by the quiet songs in one of his albums, Walking in the Footsteps - Celebrating the Group of Seven. At the Black Sheep, he played his songs in a folk-rock fashion to a small but dedicated and enthusiatic crowd. I discretely took a couple of photos at the concert and created this ink drawing afterwards. I liked the ambiance of the Black Sheep. It reminded me a little of Le Hibou (not the restaurant next door but the legendary coffee house on Sussex Street in Ottawa that had concerts by the like of Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn, Kris Kristofferson, Neil Young, Muddy Waters and more). I liked the intimate ambiance in the room. It's a big difference from listening to singers in large concert halls even if you can manage to get a seat up front.

Ink drawing with a Lamy Safari pen and Platinum Carbon Black Ink in a Moleskine watercolour sketchbook, 28.5 x 14 cm (11.25 x 5.5 inches).

Il est extrêmement rare que je fréquente un bar, mais récemment, apprenant que l'auteur-compositeur Ian Tamblyn chantait au Black Sheep à Wakefield (Québec), j'ai fait une exception. Ian Tamblyn a enregistré plus de 30 albums depuis le début de sa carrière en 1976. Bien que je ne les aie certainement pas tous écoutés, je suis impressionné par les chansons intimistes de l'un de ses albums, « Walking in the Footsteps - Celebrating the Group of Seven ». Au Black Sheep, il a interprété ses chansons dans un style folk-rock devant un audience restreint mais enthousiaste et passionné. J'ai discrètement pris quelques photos pendant le concert et réalisé ce dessin à l'encre par la suite. J'ai beaucoup aimé l'ambiance du Black Sheep. Elle m'a un peu rappelé Le Hibou (non pas le restaurant voisin, mais le café-concert légendaire de la rue Sussex à Ottawa, qui a accueilli des artistes comme Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn, Kris Kristofferson, Neil Young, Muddy Waters et bien d'autres). J'ai apprécié l'atmosphère intime de la salle. C'est très différent que d'écouter des chanteurs dans de grandes salles de concert, même si l'on parvient à obtenir une place aux premiers rangs.

Dessin à l'encre de Chine, réalisé avec un stylo Lamy Safari et de l'encre Platinum carbon noir, dans un carnet de croquis aquarelle Moleskine, 28,5 x 14 cm (11.25 x 5.5 pouces).

Lowell's Restaurant. Pike Place Market. Seattle.

I've sketched along this promenade in Gatineau Point several times over the years. The views of the Ottawa River are great and there are plenty of places with benches that allow you to stop and enjoy the scenery.

J'ai dessiné plusieurs fois le long de cette promenade à Pointe Gatineau au fil des années. Les vues sur la rivière des Outaouais sont superbes et il y a plein d'endroits avec des bancs qui vous permettent de vous arrêter et de profiter du paysage.

Today's Inktober is inspired by the inuit artist, Kenojuak Ashevak, who would have been 87 on the 3rd.

Materials: Noodler's, Diamine, J. Herbin & Private Reserve inks on Stillman & Birn, Zeta paper.

The museum director let me stay sketching, even after the museum had closed.

We’re walking around the sketching scenes and streets of Oststadt in Karlsruhe next Wednesday from 6pm starting at the Cemetery Info Center, if anyone wants to join us:

www.friedhof-karlsruhe.de/programm/ausstellungen.html

As I was sat sketching this view, a passing walker said that looks like pure bliss.

He was right.

After a recent visit this spring to Chanticleer Gardens near Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), I created this ink drawing of my wife as she was walking along an elevated walkway. This was our second visit to this garden which is absolutely enchanting. The skill they demonstrate in growing a wide variety of flowers, shrubs and trees is only equaled to the artistry in which they present them. The garden has numerous sites to explore - like the ruins, the pond, the teacup house and main house, the elevated walkway, the creek and asian woods. You can easily and enjoyably loose yourself there for a day!

Après une récente visite ce printemps aux Jardins Chanticleer près de Philadelphie (Pennsylvanie), j'ai créé ce dessin à l'encre de ma femme alors qu'elle marchait le long d'une passerelle surélevée. C'était notre deuxième visite dans ce jardin absolument enchanteur. L'habileté dont ils font preuve dans la culture d'une grande variété de fleurs, d'arbustes et d'arbres n'a d'égal que le talent artistique avec lequel ils les présentent. Le jardin comporte de nombreux sites à explorer, comme les ruines, l'étang, la maison de thé et la maison principale, la passerelle surélevée, le ruisseau et les bois asiatiques. Vous pourrez facilement et agréablement vous y perdre le temps d'une journée !