Yesterday I just never found the time for another
watercolour Treasure Island copy. In the last two or three months I’ve just been
working in my Canson A5 mixed media sketching journal. However on Friday I
wanted to make a copy of one of William Heath Robinson’s illustrations for the
poems of Edgar Allan Poe. The original is such a complex illustration that I
decided to use one of the empty pages in my Daler Rowney A4 sketchbook. Here’s
my copy.
You know, I enjoyed it so much that I used the book for all
of my sketches this weekend. Amongst others was this copy of a Treasure Island illustration
by Walter Paget. Paget was a respected and very successful English illustrator
in the last years of the 19th century ad the first couple of decades
of the 20th. His illustrations to “Treasure Island” provide many
striking images of the story and are amongst the most popular.Finally, then, old Victoria London, a favourite subject of
mine to sketch. This one took hours.
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