Netherlands vs Brazil (Porto 2010)

Just this week I hit on the idea of binding some watercolour drawings together into a handmade book, and these would be ideal, as a series. There are 13 watercolour drawings in all ... perfect! 

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More from last year's Sketchbook Project

Liston's Forge, in pencil. 

Liston's forge, oil pastel

Inside Liston's Forge, chalk pastel

I have been wondering about this particular building, and why it and the small piece of land it's on have not been taken over by the adjacent agribusiness. Every now and again I walk around it and in it and think about what I'd like to do with this particular building. For the time being I just photograph it and draw it and think about smiths and burning iron and all the mythology that's out there on the subject. 

Netherlands versus Brazil, Porto, 2010

Water colour drawings. 

Another nude study, this time in pencil

Knockfierna - an oil pastel sketch

Says it all, really - a sketch done in oil pastel of the hill near my house, on a non-rainy day. I did it and put it away for a while and forgot all about it until I was looking for something else, and decided to get it framed up. It's been to two different galleries, and now it's home again.