Ships at Portland Harbour (Dorset UK).

Monday afternoon 15 July - 2 sisters at Portland Harbour (Dorset UK). In the background you can see yachts sailing round last year's Olympic course. The 2 young men swimming in the foreground were cooling off and showing off in front of their girlfriends.

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Boats at Chesil Beach, Portland, UK

 

 

Last week Monday morning 15 July. Boats on the Chiswell/Fortuneswell end of Chesil Beach, Isle of Portland, Dorset, UK. Chesil Beach (or Bank) is a spit of shingle and pebbles 18 miles long, 50 feet high. Portland stone has been used over the centuries in the UK to construct many of the Government and Public Buildings in London.

 

Lincoln Cathedral - Chapter House

Couldn't sketch on the longest day - it was my birthday and I was dealing with family matters! Yesterday we went to a stone carving show in Lincoln and I sketched this one in between the showers.

Come and see 9 of my paintings

- at The Lost Art Exhibition

4th - 9th December 2012 inclusive 9am - 5pm

Smart Space, Belvedere Building, Booth Street, Manchester M2 4AW

Private viewing 3rd December contact: vkenyon@steelcase.com

Paris, Basilique du Sacre-Coeur in Montmatre

afternoon sketch (last Sunday)

Paris, Basilique du Sacre-Coeur in Montmatre

Morning sketch

Versailles, Paris

                              Did this one standing up holding an umbrella

Visit my Portland/Weymouth paintings at:
http://www.whitestonescafegallery.com/gallery.html
Call in if you're anywhere near Portland, Dorset - they also do a nice capuccino!

RIP NA

If I'd been on the Moon with my sketchpad and crayons on that day in July 1969 I might just have sketched this! The coolest man on the World has gone.

Portland, Dorset, UK

While I was enjoying myself listening to and sketching those waves Liz and friends were hard at work stone carving at the rock face

Portland, Dorset, UK

......and the beach huts at Church Ope Cove

Portland, Dorset, UK

We've been back a week now - I miss those crashing waves at Church Ope Cove.

England, Dorset - Weymouth

Another summer day on Weymouth Promenade! Where's Bryn?

The Art of Urban Sketching

Check out page 156 in this gorgeous book for my drawing of Egerton Lane, Sheffield:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Urban-Sketching-Drawing-Location/dp/1592537251/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329250522&sr=1-1

Haddon Hall - Courtyard

The Courtyard - Haddon Hall - Derbyshire. My favourite Stately Home - about 15 miles from our home. A sort of panoramic painting - almost 270degs around. Vertically....varies! Thanks daughter Sian for the idea.

London, Old Royal Navy College

London - Greenwich - the entrance to the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College

London, Greenwich Hill

Greenwich Hill silhouette - my left leg was in the Eastern Hemisphere, my right in the Western - I was bang on longitude zero!

London, Royal Observatory, Greenwich

London, National Gallery, Trafalgar Squre

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square from the steps in front of St Martin in the Fields

London, Kensington, Brompton Road

Lunch break from the Brass Band Competition