Lynx

pencil sketch of Laura

lean to

Juliana in pencil

A portrait drawing made from life.

my heart

Drawn from life with a china marker.

more warm up sketches

standing alone

not a snowflake's chance

Aaron

The scholar of early medieval Europe

Eastbury Manor

I drew this view from life, on a warm May day in Compton, near Guildford, in the UK, using a Copic brush pen and a handful of Pigma Microns.

The manor, a red brick pile crowned by a forest of chimneys, is now a retirement home. The triangular spire behind it belongs to the ancient church of Saint Nicolas, whose old graveyard overlooks the retirement home's gardens.

you may guess the answer

The wreck in the harbour - Dracula arrives in England

A ship founders under the steep sides of the English town of Whitby. It was here that Dracula came to Britain in the late 1890s, aboard the Russian ship Demeter, and that's what I was thinking about when I made the picture.

I used a modern version of Whitby, however - the one I saw a few years back. This is the view, more or less, looking down on the town from the ruined abbey on the north shore.

some men

Keep my nose in books

The Chinese Robe

Thinking about Chaucer

It's what she was doing.

never on time

I drew and painted this many years ago now, on a spare piece of cardboard. It was done quickly, because my model had places to be.

In the Japanese/English dictionary

Drawn from life in the student lounge.

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