More sketching near home and away
I have been busy, but not that busy posting stuff here! So what's new? Well we were away in Anglesey for a week a little while back, when I endeavoured to find the time, inspiration and places to 'sketch away'. We stayed in a nice little village called Aberffraw on the south western coast (where the shell-shaped biscuits originate, if you've seen them). So, here's Aberffraw village, which I drew as I was tucked in against the churchyard wall as it was rather breezy and chilly and was one of numerous occasions recently when the wind was trying to tear the pages away from my sketchbook as I worked. There was this occasion on another day when I wielded an A3 sketchbook and drew this one in charcoal of cottages close to where we were staying, below. I managed to find a beached boat to lean on while I balanced the sketchbook on my legs. And at about thirty yards from the premises we were stying in was the river estuary, where I completed this view looking sea-wards, in ...