Commision: Roxy

Another dog commission this one. Pushed for time at the weekend, this is the product of three evening sessions.

Daily Sketch: Welsh Assembly Building, Cardiff

Daily Sketch: Puffing Billy Guest House Torrington

This is the back of the Puffing Billy Guest house. It's in the old Station Master's house, Torrington, Devon. Most of the track of this line has been torn up, but now it forms part of the beautiful Tarka Trail. This was where we spent the weekend of our Pearl Wedding.

This is the front, at 8am in the morning.

Daily Sketch: Station Road, Port Talbot

Daily Sketch: Plaza CInema

Plaza Cinema Port Talbot

Like the library, I have actually painted this building in the past.

Daily Sketch: Taibach Library

Taibach Library, Port Talbot

This is a subject I have actually painted in the past. It's a little bit of laziness on my part, since it's only a couple of hundred yards down the road from where I live. Like the church picture this one is done with a fineliner, and I'm pleased with both because they are closer to what I feel an urban sketch should be than anything else I've done.

English country church

English Country Church

If this only looks like part of the painting you're right. This is painted for a special occasion, but that's not important for now. What I really like about this is the trees. I am so pleased with both sets of trees, but especially with the foliage on the left hand side. This is immodest, but I think if you compared these with the trees in last year's painting of the little red corvette, or even the trees in the fairground engine painting there's no comparison. In fact I stopped working on the trees before I originally planned to simply because I was pretty happy, and was afraid that I'd end up overworking them if I carried on.