Showing posts with label sketchbook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sketchbook. Show all posts

3 Jun 2025

Sketchbook in Thoresby Park.

 


 

 Sketching trees in Thoresby Park.

all text and artwork copyright ian gordon craig


 

26 Jan 2025

Sketchbook imaginings.

 



More sketches to keep my Twitter / X active. It's too cold to be outside looking for resources and ideas. So let the imagination run free. The sketch of an oak tree in a clearing, is from a theme I worked on several years ago.

 All artwork & text copyright ian gordon craig

 

9 Jan 2025

What's the pupose?

 



 

I keep my Twitter / X page going, mostly by posting sketches. Maybe it will attract potential customers for my book(s)? The above invoked a question on my Painters On-line page:

“What is the purpose of the white oblongs?”

What indeed?

 all text and artwork copyright ian gordon craig

 

30 Nov 2024

#Sketchbook November.

 




Top to bottom: Parliament Oak, the Major Oak, a witch, and Byron's Oak, Newstead Abbey (only the stump remains).

Below: Felled tree and a Lightning Tree, Thoresby Park.


All artwork copyright ian gordon craig

 



25 Sept 2024

#Sketchbook September.





Sketchbook pages from my walks around Thoresby Park.


 All artwork copyright ian gordon craig.

14 Oct 2023

October sketchbook.




 Bridge over River Maun, Ollerton; clouds over Thoresby fields; Thoresby Park country lane. On the look-out again for new subjects. It's getting tricky!

 All artwork copyright ian gordon craig.

19 Sept 2023

September sketchbook.




Top to bottom: Clootie tree, Newstead Abbey grounds, Oak Apples, Silver Birch.
 

 I enjoy my sketchbook, and still have no plans at all to ever return to painting. Also, it keeps my Twitter page active, which might be useful to publicize my intended poetry book.

All artwork and photography copyright ian g craig.

28 Aug 2023

Looking for subjects to sketch.




 It's getting difficult to find new places to sketch. Seen here are a lightning tree in Thoresby Park, Nottingham Rock Cemetery, a bench on a hill in Thoresby Park, and a path leading to Perlethorpe Church.

All artwork copyright ian gordon craig.

24 Jul 2021

Newstead Abbey.

 


I find it hard to make something creative out of formal gardens. Hence converting my Newstead Abbey observations to moonlight.

All artwork copyright Ian Gordon Craig.