house on a hill

playing aroud again with watercolours and fineliners.

It was ....

Playing around with a waterbrush...one little doodle, and the other is the doodle from gandy street the other day

Inner gremlin

Theres a theroy that I recently read about onner gremlins and that each one of us has a living breathing gremlin inbedded in our brain. It constantly dimishes our self esteem and confidance, yes its a big mean nasty bully haha. I read that drawing or write it down, so you can visualise it, so you can tell it to shut its trap! So here is mine, except theres one problem... I rather like him, so I guess hes more the opposite sooo i shall have to try again, but it was fun trying to make somethibg ugly but then to find the results endearing and cute. C'est la vie.

Drawing Gandy street

Just playing around ( I say playing as if it took me under five minutes, that's not true it took me over 45 mins, perhaps an hour I wasn't really watching the time) with some new fineliners I bought. Well you see the thing s, I bought a few liked them, but then they faded and well it turns out that they didn't like watercolours either... but on these pens its actually written across the side of the pen"water and fade proof, pigment ink" so I shall see.

This would be the beautiful Gandy street, most known for its fantastic independent (yet some of these are more south west chain shops now, but some aren't ) shops and for being the inspiration behind THE  Diagon Alley, yes the street in Harry Potter!!  

It's not a great drawing, but it's practice which I need to do clearly :D I kinda took a photograph at angle, and for some werid reason that was entirely subconscious that I would draw as if it had been taken from a "normalish" angle, hence everything's everywhere.

p.s. In case that you're wondering all those delightful scribbles that are in the bottom half of the drawing are ivy, its pretty dense, should have drawn more... maybe I will go over in watercolour... rambling thoughts continue.