Todays Sketch 30th August 2014...

Another small A4 acrylic painting in the sketchbook of the corner of the George Hotel in Stockport. Anyone enlighten me what the two items outside are, is one a postbox?, its before my time.…

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Todays Sketch 28th August 2014...

A4 watercolour & pen the image is of Ashton Road, Denton in Tameside (Greater Manchester). You wouldn't recognize the area but I've left the chain there on the pub's car park, in the original photograph its just a wall. I've not done any small ones in the Sketchbook for a couple of weeks due to finishing larger paintings and completing college work before starting back. I only have to do 3 or 4 small images then the Sketchbook will be full for once instead of being left half empty…

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Todays Sketch 11th August 2014...

Back to the Acrylics for this one it has more going on in the background then I would normally put in. These are only A4 sketches so you can't get every detail in which is a good thing sometimes. This image is of Stockport, Cheshire again which I took a few years ago looking at the corner of Debenhams, Viaduct and The Pyramid.…

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Todays Sketch 10th August 2014...

A quick experimental pastel painting using water with the soft pastels and painting with a brush. Didn't go exactly as I planned but never mind no harm done, not to keen on it but I suppose someone will like it…

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Todays Sketch 9th August 2014...

Another pastel drawing still experimenting with the medium, tried Charcoal with Soft Pastels today. I also use watercolour paper which had a cold pressed tooth rather than the grey pastel paper I've used recently. Also I used a colour shaper too force the pastel into the tooth so it wouldn't just disappear when I put fixative on top, seemed to work. Anyway the image is of Wear Mill going under the viaduct in Stockport, Cheshire, UK. Again this is a small A4 sketch hopefully should finish the Sketchbook soon and then I can move back on to the large stuff.…

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2nd Sketch Today 8th August 2014...

A bit of a change from the norm moved away from Townscapes fancied a holiday, I carried on with the pastels from earlier and decided to do another sketch. I found this image in a book I have changed a few things (artists rights) and did another pastel sketch on A4 Grey pastel paper…

As I'm new to pastels does anyone prefer a certain brand of fixative for soft pastels. Or does every fixative dull the colours and remove a lot of the pastel, I spray gentle short burst from a distant with the paper laid on the floor I swear I'm only just touching the pastel but I still get the same results. Any recommendations?

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Todays Sketch 8th August 2014...

Stockport Market Sketch in Soft Pastels, Conte Crayon and Pastel Pencils on Grey Pastel paper. Quick sketch done in a couple of hours the pastels are fixed so the colours aren't as vivid as hey should be and as its going in the sketchbook it needs to be fixed. No idea why I decided to do this in pastel just wanted a change from the acrylics for a bit. Not really done much pastels work as I don't like the why the colours disappear when you fix them, its ok if the paintings going behind glass but this one isn't…

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Todays Sketch 5th August 2014...

Another Manchester Sketch this one is looking at Manchester Art Gallery. The image has the old orange GM Buses so the image is possibly from the mid 80's. The sketch / small painting is on A4 Acrylic paper and acrylic paint as been used. I quite like this better than yesterdays mess which I know was the other acrylic paper I used, never again…

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Todays Sketch 3rd August 2014...

Today's sketch is another image of Blackpool. I tried a different acrylic paper out today but its not too clever it has a weird bumpy texture, the make is Reeves so of course its crap one for the bin...

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Todays Sketch 2nd August 201…

Today's sketch is of Cley Windmill, Norfolk I saw a painting earlier this week of Clay Windmill by artist Leo Carroll cant remember what it look like just remember I really like the windmill. I'm really struggling doing stuff at this small size again I would like to do this larger and change a few things. This is an A4 acrylic sketch, again its a slightly different subject matter than what I draw, cant remember the last time I did a landscape..

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Todays Sketch 1st August 2014...

August already just over a month left and I can get back to art college and finish the last year of my foundation degree. Anyway todays Sketch is a quick pastel sketch on black paper, this one didn't take long to do at all. Its only an idea I might reproduce it but not in pastel though. The image if you can't figure it out is of Blackpool, UK.

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