13-11-13, 09:02 PM
Superb detail in that drawing. I tend to be a bit lazier and suggest detail. Also, I haven't actually done a lot "on location" but work from photos quite often. Laziness is another of my hobbies! :lol
I did once take a ride to Finchingfield in Essex when I lived nearer to there, and sat on the bike to do some sketching there - nice subjects in that village - that's probably the last time I actually sketched on the spot, maybe 5 years ago.
Do you have any particular inspirations? I have (or had - can't seem to find it at the moment) a brilliant book by David Cox, a 1900 reproduction of a volume originally produced in 1815, in which the artist has done some wonderful sketches of the kind of buildings typical of the countryside of the time - a very important historical record in my view, and hard to find such excellent subjects these days. There are a couple of very old barns and farm outbuildings near here that I first saw from the top deck of a bus before I had my current bike (you can't see them from nearer road level due to high hedges etc). I keep meaning to go and ask the owners if they mind if I spend a couple of hours sketching them, but haven't got around to that yet - maybe next summer.
I did once take a ride to Finchingfield in Essex when I lived nearer to there, and sat on the bike to do some sketching there - nice subjects in that village - that's probably the last time I actually sketched on the spot, maybe 5 years ago.
Do you have any particular inspirations? I have (or had - can't seem to find it at the moment) a brilliant book by David Cox, a 1900 reproduction of a volume originally produced in 1815, in which the artist has done some wonderful sketches of the kind of buildings typical of the countryside of the time - a very important historical record in my view, and hard to find such excellent subjects these days. There are a couple of very old barns and farm outbuildings near here that I first saw from the top deck of a bus before I had my current bike (you can't see them from nearer road level due to high hedges etc). I keep meaning to go and ask the owners if they mind if I spend a couple of hours sketching them, but haven't got around to that yet - maybe next summer.