Urban sketching symposium

I was very pleased to receive - and accept - an invitation to speak at the Urban Sketching Symposium in Lisbon in July. 

Sketchbooks in Almada

Eduardo Salavisa sent me photographs of the installation of the exhibition of sketchbooks in Almada, Portugal, including some of my work. I love the way the have mounted the show, using perspex tops to cover the drawers in which the various artists' sketchbooks lie open. 

Kalk Bay

Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite in Brighton sketchbook. 

Don't dawdle, it's hot!

Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.

Bathers

Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.

Penguins on the beach

I'm still engaged in the endless and boring task of scanning in drawings, which I suppose is a good thing, since I haven't had time to make any drawings over the past week or so.

Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.

This five-year old boy directed and performed in a play in the garden on new year's day... The props were interesting, especially a pair of patterned underpants used as a hat.

Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.

Wearing my other hat

Coming soon from Manchester University Press, around mid February... this promises to replace Stig Larsson on the page-turner best-seller list...

Humans and dogs on beach

Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook. 

Same view, different times

Well, same-ish view, Kommetjie beach from a particular bench on the boardwalk for the last three, and actually on the beach in the first spread. I've always loved the almost-repetition of the almost-the-same. It's the underlying minimalism of my not very minimalist work...

Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.

Brush markers and watercolour in Windsor and Newton spiral-bound sketchbook.