Drawing trees: 126

19 December 2016

Mist in the trees.


Ashdown Forest: Undecember

14 December 2016

Blue skies and sunshine: un-December.

Sketching quickly... watercolour, pencil, ink... five minutes drawing, painting, making marks... fifteen minutes watching paint dry...



























Drawing trees: 125

13 December 2016


Grey pens for a grey day. 21 x 13cm.

Car park

12 December 2016


Car in the car park.

Marker pens, 21 x 13cm

Drawing trees 124

10 December 2016



The big Christmas tree in Covent Garden, from the courtyard of St Paul's. Ink, 21 x 13cm.

Drawing trees: 123

08 December 2016


Ink and marker pens.

Drawing trees: 122

07 December 2016


Only lines.

A landscape

01 December 2016

Drawing trees:121

28 November 2016

Using marker pens in black and shades of grey. 30 x 21cm.

Drawing trees: 120

24 November 2016


Ink and marker pens, 23 x 23cm.

Paris: Place Emile Goudeau

29 October 2016

Place Emile Goudeau, Montmartre: On the right, Le Bateau-Lavoir.

Where Picasso had a studio in 1907.

Where Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Where modern art was born.


Ink and watercolour, 43 x 13cm.

Paris: En noir et blanc

28 October 2016

Sketches using marker pens in black and five shades of grey. Each 21 x 13 cm.



Pont Neuf



Houses on the Rue de Rivoli



Rue Saint-Julien le Pauvre



Parking in Rue Boutebrie



Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière

Paris: Rue de la Roquette

27 October 2016

"Alimentation Gle".


Ink, 18 x 13 cm.

Paris: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise

On the corner of Chemin du Bastion and Chemin Mont-Louis. There really are street names and "No Entry" signs in the cemetery.



Ink and watercolour, 43 x 13cm. Click to enlarge.

A good place to draw: interesting architecture; benches; and it's quiet. But go informed or take a map: at least three people asked me the way to Jim Morrison.

Paris: Belleville

On the corner of Rue des Envierges and Rue de Transvaal.


Ink and watercolour, 43 x 13cm. Click to enlarge.

Paris: Pont de l'Archevêché

26 October 2016

Under the bridge, a man was shouting "C'est la guerre" every few minutes.



Ink and watercolour, 42 x 13cm. Click to enlarge.