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Card Players revisited

by admin on 5 August 2026 at 5:01 pm
Posted In: drawing

Made a new ink drawing of the Card Players today using only my Kuratake brush pens. One leaked black ink all over my hands (too much heat, perhaps?) and the other had almost run out of ink, leaving me with a dry brush effect. Noticed that in my sketch I made one of the men a bit too tall. And in the end, I couldn’t get a thin enough line out of either brush so I resorted to using my Copic 0.1 liner to do some of the cross hatching/shading in the background. It was fun to do something a little different this afternoon.

The Card Players – revisited in 2026
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Another day, another new webhost

by admin on 1 August 2026 at 9:32 pm
Posted In: musing

Well, Fatcow bit the dust. I had not even noticed when my longtime webhosting service was taken over by iPage, the last few years have been anything but easy and I had let the ball drop on all these web admin issues, having not updated my website for ages. In the age of AI, one’s own work becomes grist to the mill for the bots out there who happily hoover up all and any data on the internet. Anyway, I was presented quite suddenly with an eye-watering bill for webhosting and realised that Network Solutions had absorbed iPage, another corporate takeover that would have passed me by had it not been for the exorbitant amount that I was charged for renewing my webhosting subscription.

So here I am, after petulantly trying to pull the plug on my own website, forgetting that I had one or two essential things still running on the server… Now I have a new webhost and a brand new WordPress blog, as I was too disorganised and incompetent to properly migrate my old blog over, but have diligently made backups over the years and hope the new one is almost indistinguishable from the old.

I’ll just use this blog to post the occasional sketch from time to time.

Thanks for sticking around with me so far!

Sketchbook: Hôtel Göuin – Tours, France

by admin on 19 February 2026 at 11:00 pm
Posted In: drawing

A magnificently elaborate facade, we first passed this while exploring a little further away from our hotel in Tours last spring. A rather messy sketch, and not technically accurate, but more of an impression of the fancy building. We stepped into the courtyard but never actually went inside.

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Sketchbook: St Mary the Virgin, Teynham

by admin on 29 July 2024 at 6:05 pm
Posted In: drawing

This was sketched from a photograph taking while taking a long walk around Teynham in Kent. Photographed my sketchbook on the dining table.

St Mary the Virgin, Teynham, Kent
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Sketchbook: Stream in the Lake District

by admin on 15 April 2024 at 5:57 pm
Posted In: drawing
Watendlath Valley

From my sketchbook today, a wooden bridge over a stream in the Watendlath valley in the Lake District, a place I visit relatively often.

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