Category: Places
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Culzean beach lookout
A quick watercolor painting (from a photo) from a recent trip to Culzean Castle Beach in Ayrshire, Scotland. I used a pencil, Derwent Graphitint Watercolors, and Derwent Waterbrushes for this painting.
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Late evening in the park
I painted this watercolor painting of our local park at dusk the other night after my daughter and I took the dog out on an evening walk. The sky was unexpectedly clear and the light was fading, but there was a lot of color in the sky. I used a pencil, a Uniball Vision pen,…
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Looking down The Law
Here is a recent landscape watercolor painting of a hill called The Law in Scotland. Going down The Law, one of the hills in the Ochil Hills range, was the best part of my recent hike up Ben Cleuch. After getting to the top of Ben Cleuch, we slowly descended down The Law and the…
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Main St house (original)
Watercolor painting of our little house on Main St, before it gets renovated early next year.
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Partick bridge, the River Kelvin
A little painting from our recent walk around Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Park on a random day where we took the train and underground into the city with no destination in particular. This scene is of the Partick bridge spanning the River Kelvin with the tower of Glasgow University in the background. Beautiful spot.
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Avon water
I recently got out to explore a new park, the Chatelherault Country Park, in Hamilton, Scotland, and it was a great experience. I took inspiration from that to paint this memory of the river Avon that runs through the park. As usual, I started this with a line drawing using pencile and pen: Then, I…
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Back garden shed
My wife and I have done a lot of work in the back garden over the past year. It is the one part of our overall property that we’ve been able to make some meaningful changes to by adding a shed (and trying to keep it clear of mold), raised beds, and rockery. The dog…
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Elie from the bedroom window
The family and I got away for a little trip last week and we stayed at an AirBnB with a great little view from the back bedroom window. Here is a little drawing/painting I did of what the view looked like. I used a pencil, a Uniball Vision pen, Derwent Inktense Watercolors, and Derwent Waterbrushes…
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Dark sky stream
Inspired by a recent walk with the dog. I glanced at this while crossing a little bridge into one of the neighborhoods nearby our house and loved the way the sun was peeking out over the clouds and treeline. I used a pencil, a Uniball Vision pen, Derwent Inktense Watercolors, and Derwent Waterbrushes for this…
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Whidbey beach
One of my favorite places in the whole world is the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound. This was inspired by a trip to one of those islands (Whidbey), in early 2017. For those that don’t know, here is where the island is: I used a pencil, a Uniball Vision pen, Derwent Inktense Watercolors,…