Looking for subjects to sketch.

 It's getting difficult to find new places to sketch. Seen here are a lightning tree in Thoresby Park, Nottingham Rock Cemetery, a bench on a hill in Thoresby Park, and a path leading to Perlethorpe Church.

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July sketchbook is full of cakes.

 

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March sketchbook.

 

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September outdoors sketchbook.

 

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Accepted for exhibition and sold.

 

Above: The Harley Gallery accepted BOTH of my submissions for their 2022 Open Exhibition. Well pleased.

UPDATE: Received notification, 21st September, that Plastic Pollution 2 (above top right) has sold. This means that both times I have applied to exhibit in this gallery I have been accepted and sold. And, both times the work had been praised on social media then rejected by the Patchings Art Centre.

UPDATE 2: 12th October. Went to see the exhibition with old schoolmate. Only to find another red dot on the wall, signifying the sale of the second plastic pollution painting. (Top left). Wow.

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Losing the magic.

 I remember the exact moment when my childhood toy soldiers and self-made shoe-box Dodge City would no longer play with me. The magic had gone. Who would guess that such moments, when the magic disappears, would reoccur throughout life?

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Flowers in June.

 

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Photographs in June.

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February turns to March.

 

Out with the old...

in with the new... 

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February photographs.

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January photographs.

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Black & white January part 2.

 

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Merry Christmas.

 The family Christmas tree always had a glass Santa (which aged along with me through the years), and a Christmas Fairy (which aged with my older sister). I thought it would be a good idea to design two new original characters, making ceramic Christmas gifts for my sisters and brother. The face masks are an obvious reference to the current pandemic. Mince pies are something I can and do eat all year 'round.

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Landscape sketches.

 Top to bottom:  Clumber Park, Oxton, Rufford Abbey, Sherwood Forest, Oxton.

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