Rainbow Tulips #2

This is my third attempt in the last 3 or 4 days to capture these rainbow tulips. I hope I’m getting closer. This third sketch was painted in watercolour on watercolour paper. I added a little heightening in chalk pastel.

Seagulls #1

No blog entries for days and then two at once… This is just a quick scribble really. Relaxing over a cup of tea in the Floral Pavilion, New Brighton after a long walk, a lamp-post was favoured by several seagulls over a short period. This is an attempt to fleetingly capture some of them from…

Rainbow Tulips #1

A couple of sketches here of some rainbow tulips. The first sketch (above) is rendered in chalk pastels, which (as has become second nature) I’ve struggled a bit with. I did it a couple of days ago but a radiator kindly burst before I had time to upload a photo of the scrawl. The second…