Demo of drawing William

Someone asked recently for a video of how I go about drawing William - so I thought I would give that a try.  (Not that I'm any good at filming video, but here goes)....

~ Hope you at least got the idea of how I draw him ~

Coin find

Look what husband found recently on one of our walks.  At the time it was covered in dirt, and isn't actually this copper colour, it should be a shiny silver colour (although it doesn't contain silver) - as you can no doubt see the date on it is 1958. We went over to decimalisation in 1971 and this coin was taken out of circulation in 1980. 

South Coast drive

Not sure I have remembered this scene exactly right, but we were travelling in the car at the time.  Along the South Coast towards Bridport - I think this scene is nearer to Chideock.   I like the group of trees on the hill and have always meant to sketch them...this time I have, just not en plein air.

Then again from memory, but the inspiration came from our walk along the river at Arundel

~ Have a great weekend everyone ~

A couple of quick pony sketches

....not a lot of time for sketching on our recent trip, but I did get these down on paper with some watercolours...

Country Park and the pub

Funny the things you find on a walk.  We had a few days away and came across

 Itchen Country Park...things change over the years and nowadays a lot more thought is put into the outdoor experience for people.  Well, we had a certain lurcher with us (William for those who don't know - Link here to his blog), but I digress.  A walk is a walk, but this one came up with a few surprises...like this giant squirrel.  (We seem to find giant squirrels lately - read blogpost here)..

Then there was a picture trail - could we find all of them....

Umm...well, the answer was No we couldn't.  We must have gone wrong somewhere...






But along the trail there were some great things for kids...

and Lurchers!

(getting specific instruction from dad here)!!

It took a bit of explaining this one...

but the anteater was a lot easier!

The construction of Go-Ape was nearly completed...

and No, William didn't try that out - far too high..

After all that exercise we retreated to the Pub....

the Hampshire Bowman (link here)

Had a lovely meal with an old friend and then back to our Hotel...

Bartley Lodge Hotel in the New Forest

Where we had more great walks....even saw some deer (look carefully at the next picture - you might spot it) -  Thankfully the lurcher didn't do the deerhound thing of chasing it!

 

Brighton

We took the Park & Ride into Brighton from the outskirts of the town, made life a lot easier.  Then started looking around on the seafront.  Forgot that BA are sponsoring the building of a 450ft. tower  ....there were men dangling on rope wires way way up...shish!!!  made me feel dizzy just looking at them...


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Even though it is high - Very High! - I would still go up in the cable car, just to say I'd seen the view ;)

The boarding around the site had been painted, which looked good..

I really liked this one!

The former West Pier still stands forlorn though....(click here for wiki info on its history)

and after all that walking, we decided to stop for a drink...

Check out William's blog from yesterday if you haven't already (click link here)....

Visit to Arundel, Sussex

 

 (Arundel Castle)

Driving into the town...

 

and early on we saw the castle entrance - the main road for the town goes right past it...

 

and on down to our Hotel

 

The Norfolk Arms Hotel - here's Google Street View...

(photo in this blogpost taken at various times of the day)

A lot of buildings and walls surrounding land and property are made from the local Flint - I wonder if these are the original Flintstones?!

 

 Never let it be said that the architecture is not grand here - even the Roman Catholic Cathedral had to make a statement in size

 but why oh why was this 1970's garage extension on the back of it allowed - What the 'hell' were the planners thinking!

 

Arundel is named from the River Arun which runs through the town and gave us a chance of some lovely walks...

 

 

With a view back to the castle

and as the day drew to a close, 

it was nice to take a wander around the town

Click Link - Arundel

Arundel Castle - click link

Arundel - Wetlands/River - Click link 

Our next visit is Brighton

(but that's another post soon)

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