Latest Project

Yes, it's back to the trams, I'm afraid. This is the latest picture I'm working on - and it's taken me a couple of hours to get this far with it: -

There is something different about this one. Every painting I've done before I've sketched onto the canvas with an ordinary graphite pencil before I've applied any paint to the canvas. With this one, though, I decided to try to sketch with the brush as I went along. Maybe this is the reason why it seems to be taking so much longer than usual . The tram itself isn't finished by any stretch of the imagination, but there's things I really want to do with the background before I go back to it. The white area on the extreme right is going to be a building.

Hay on Wye sketches

Did these yesterday in Hay during a half term visit for a mooch around the bookshops

Daily Sketch

Everything I've read urges us to get out and sketch at every opportunity. I carried out this sketch with a biro on the back on an exam paper while invigilating an exam yesterday morning.

21/10/16

Sketches

Here's some of my latest daily sketches, which I haven't had time to post earlier: -

Frrydwyllt House, Port Talbot - former council offices

Nice Old building in Swansea - 22/0/16

Kash Superstore, Bailey St. Aberavon

Neath Indoor Market

Amelia

This is the second painting I've done of my granddaughter. She's older now, and lighter too.

Daily Sketches

Been hard to keep up this last week or so - still, here's the latest couple: - this first one is the Beulah Chapel in Margam. It's known as the round chapel, although it is in fact octagonal. It was one among a number of notable buildings in the village of Groes. The village was demolished to make room for the M4 motorway in 1974 - in the kind of act of cultural vandalism which gives the 1970s a bad name - justifiably so. Sadly the round chapel was the only building from the village to be rebuilt.




This is the Express café in Margam, just a few yards across the road from the round chapel. Cafes like this used to be a common site in any Welsh town, but they're a bit of a dying breed.