For years and years I had thought about starting to paint and draw then in April 2024 I overheard a woman talking about an Art group she attended so I asked her about it. Rochdale Artists meet on Tuesday and Wednesdaty in Castleton and I started going to the Tuesday group on 30th April 2024 and the Wednesday group on 28th August 2024.
2026-04-27 One line - Tiffany Tree - watercolour - A4
22 April 2026 - after Brian Bolland in Cartoon Techniques, Whitacker p135 - ink - A5
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2026-04-12 Art Nouveau - pen - A4
18 March 2026 - Flowers still-life exercise - coloured pencil - 8"x10"
17 March 2026 - still-life Flowers exercise - water-pencils & damp brush - 8"x8"
11 March 2026 - Copy of a Warrior (Conan the Barbarian) by Boris Vallejo p91 - coloured pencil - A4
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10 March 2026 - Copy of a Warrior by Boris Vallejo p91 - coloured pencil - A4
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2026-02-17 Male figure outline after Boris Vallejo p91 - pencil - A4
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2026-02-09,11 Sennedjem - from his tomb - pencil + waterpencils - A4
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2026-02-03 Old Man of Storr on Skye - watercolour - A4
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2026-02-02 Copy of a Pinterest sketch - pencil - A4
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2026-01-22 Quick sketches of a Pinterest sketch and a 28 second Pinterest sketch - pencil - A5
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2026-01-21 The frozen Pond - watercolour - A4
20 January 2026 - Copy of Girl by Boris Vallejo p91 - coloured pencil - A5
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10 December 2025 - Copy of Girl2 by Boris Vallejo p91 - coloured pencil - A5
A quick sketch to experiment with watercolour pencils, blended with a damp brush
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3,10 December 2025 - Copy of Girl by Boris Vallejo p91 - pencil - A5
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2 December 2025 - Copy of Vampire by Boris Vallejo p17 - coloured pencil - A5
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23,24 November 2025 - Japanese theme
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19 November 2025 - Copy of Madonna of the Fir Tree by Marianne Stokes 1925 - watercolour - A5
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2025-11-12 Coloured Pencils exercise - A5
A couple of copies of quick sketches in Boris Vallejo's Fantasy Art Techniques
11 November 2025 - Grid copy exercise - Face - pencil - A4
Original and copy I pencil gridded with 1" squares to help in copying. Not easy to rub them all out!
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29 October 2025 - The wave - acrylic marker and water colour - A4
Inspired by The Great Wave off Kanagawa, by Katsushika Hokusai.
28 October 2025 - Japanese theme - acrylic marker - A4
This months theme was Oriental, I had not done anything so while while they were collecting other's work I drew this in 15 minutes.
15 October 2025 - Marvel Namour - unknown original - ink/acrylic marker - A4
8 October 2025 - Marvel Namour - unknown original - ink/coloured pencil - A4
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10 September 2025 - Draw Comics the Marvel Way, women's faces - pencil - A4
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20 August 2025 - Sunflowers - still life - water-colour - A4
19 August 2025 - Sunflowers - still life - water-colour - A4
13 August 2025 - Copy p94 in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - ink - A4
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12 August 2025 - Copy p93b in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - ink - A5
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6 August 2025 - Copy p93a in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - ink - A5
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6 August 2025 - Copy p92b in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - ink - A5
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30 July 2025 - Copy p92 in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - ink - A4
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29 July 2025 - Copy p90,91 in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - pencil - A4
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23 July 2025 - Marvel Namor - ink - A4
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15 July 2025 - Copy p86 in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - pencil - A4
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9 July 2025 - Copy p85 in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - ink - A5
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2 July 2025 - Copy p84 in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - ink - A5
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25,26 June 2025 - Copy p83 in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - ink - A4
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11 June 2025 - Copy p82 in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - ink - A5
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6 June 2025 - Copy p76 Chapter 7 in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A4
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26 May 2025 - Copy p75 Chapter 6, inked Spiderman + panels in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil/ink - A4
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24 May 2025 - Copy p74 Chapter 6, 3 figures in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A5
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23 May 2025 - four copies of Pinterst sketches - Pencil - A4
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21 May 2025 - Copy p73,74 Chapter 6 Spiderman, PowerMan in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A5
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20 May 2025 - Copy p61,71 Chapter 6 Pose practice, Man in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A5
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14 May 2025 - Copy p58 Chapter 6 Namor in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A4
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14 May 2025 - Copy p56,57 Thor, Fencer in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A5
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13 May 2025 - Copy p55 SpiderMan in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A5
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13 May 2025 - Copy p54 IronMan in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A5
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7 May 2025 - Copy p50 Thor in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A4
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6 May 2025 - Copy p48,p49 Thing & FatMan in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A5
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30 April 2025 - Copy p47 Dr Doom in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A4
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30 April 2025 - Copy p46 Super-Hero v Man in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A4
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29 April 2025 - Copy p45 Female Super Hero in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A4
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24 April 2025 - MARVELous St George - Pencil - A4
St George is slaying the Dragon - representing evil,and rescuing the maiden = representing The Church - as the bride of Christ.
16 April 2025 - Copy p43 Reed Richards in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A4
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16 April 2025 - Copy of Ch4 heading in Draw Comics the Marvel Way - Pencil - A4
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10 March 2025 - Copy of Dog sketch (Ngaire Smith 2025) on Pinterest - Pencil - 5"x6"
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5 March 2025 - Copy of Panel from Alex Raymond's_Flash Gordon - Pencil - 8.5"x5"
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4 March 2025 - Bridge - Pencil - A4
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26 February 2025 - Bethlehem 3 - Pencil - 14"x10"
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One of a series of set pieces by a photographer in the American Colony (Jerusalem).
G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, USA.
21 February 2025 - Youtube Girl's Face - Pencil - A4
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21 February 2025 - FaceBook-reel Girl's Face - Pencil - A4
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12 February 2025 - Mars Blocked way - pencil - 7"x10"
8 February 2025 - art everyday - Picasso - Jupiter and Semele - Pen & Ink, Water-colour - 7"x5"
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7 February 2025 - art everyday Face2 - Pencil - A6
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5 February 2025 - life drawing - Pencil - on A3 - original and enhanced
31 Jan, 1,2,3,4 Feb 2025 - art everyday - Pencil - each A6
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28,29 January 2025 - still-life exercises - Pencil, Water-colour - A4
The background colour for the Vase painting didn't scan properly.
27,28 January 2025 - art everyday - Pencil - each A6
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22,24,25 January 2025 - art everyday - Pencil - each A6
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20 January 2025 - Pen & Ink Castle11 - Pen & Ink - A4
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15 January 2025 - Pen & Ink Faces - Pen & Ink - A4
Second attempts at Pen & Ink sketching faces from a photograph
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14 January 2025 - Pen & Ink Faces - Pen & Ink - A4
First attempts at Pen & Ink sketching (no rubbing out) and first attempts at sketching faces from a photograph
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5 January 2025 - Leonardo's horse copy - pencil - A4
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28 December 2024 - Leonardo's two wheel hoist copy - pencil - A4
Not intended to be an exact copy of his drawing, but a drawing of the mechanism he drew.
My hands shake more than they used to so not perfect elipses, but neither were Leonardo's.
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26 December 2024 - Pinterest copies - pencil - A4
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8 December 2024 - Pinterest copy - pencil - A5
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1 December 2024 - Owl Cottage - coloured pencil - A4
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23,24 November 2024 - Pinterest copies - pencil - 6"x5", 7"x4"
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16 November 2024 - Mars Gateway - pencil - 7"x10"
18 November 2024 - Pinterest copy - pencil - 9"x5"
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16 November 2024 - Mars relics - pencil - 7"x10"
10 November 2024 - figure 3 - pencil - 6"5x6"5
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6 November 2024 - Mars City 4-II - pencil - 7"x10"
3 November 2024 - OW! - pencil - A4
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27 October 2024 - T'amila - pencil - 7"x7"
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22 October 2024 - Mars Base - pencil - 7"x10"
8,9 October 2024 - figure sketch - pencil: 1 - 10"x7", 2 - A4
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2 October 2024 - Mars Base - pencil - 7"x10"
1 October 2024 - water colours - 7"x5"
theme for the evening - a harvst still life
drawn from memory
25 September 2024 - Bethlehem - water colour - A4
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September 2024 - 10,11 Mars Rovers, 17 Mars Base, 18 Stella Nova - Pencil - 7"x10"
I had been looking at some of Sydney Jordan's Jeff Hawke strips and thought I would try something similar while waiting for a water colour to dry.
28 August 2024 - Bethlehem - water colour - 10"x14"
Flowers 30 July - 20 August 2024 - A4
from some examples in a book while waiting for the Bethlehem water colour to dry.
23 July 2024 - Block printing - water colour - 8"x8"
we had tutorial on simple block printing using cardboard and foam rubber blocks with felt-tip-pen 'ink'
16 July 2024 - Headland in Maine - water colour - A4
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9 July 2024 - In the greenest of our valleys - water colour - A4
inspired by E.A.Poe's The Haunted Palace
the idea was to show a ruined palace with a ghostly outline as previous.
25 June 2024 - Nearly home - water colour - A4
11 June 2024 - Wreck - water colour - 10"x14"
theme for the evening - a wreck
4 June 2024 - Going home - water colour - 10"x14"
28 May 2024 - Dancer - water colour - 10"x14"
theme for the evening - a dancer
21 May 2024 - Temeraire - water colour - "The Fighting Temeraire" as by van Gogh (from memory) - 14"x10"
theme for the evening - a famous painting in the style of another artist
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14 May 2024 - Sunflower - water colour - first painting for over 50 years, 1920s Reeves Water Colours (my mother's Paint Box) - 7"x10"
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7 May 2024 - theme for the evening - an animal
Dachshund - pencil - my first sketch since 1984 - A4
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1971 - Beach Belle - pencil enhanced - A4
1971 - Beach Belle - pencil - my first sketch since junior school - A4
I was revising some mathematics and had a page full of equations when I moved my wrist and accidentally drew a curved line.
I thought, "that looks like a thigh I wonder where the rest is", then started to extend the line rubbing out equations as I went.
It turned out to be the beach belle. I copied the original onto a clean sheet of paper to avoid the half rubbed out equations.
