Sketches & Studies
"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh." John Singer Sargent
A selection of sketches and studies taken from various sketchbooks over recent years. I love the magic of sketches; like poems they have the ability to transport you back to the moment in time when you created them with the memory fully intact. The smell, the sounds, the temperature, the feeling simply of being wherever you were then captured often in a few simple marks or lines. Also how they and studies can springboard you into new work and then continue to inform and inspire that work.
I realise that one of the things I've missed while studying for the BA and MA is the simple joy of sketching for its own sake. With the freedom of my new status as an independent, post-study artist, I look forward to enjoying that again.
A selection of sketches and studies taken from various sketchbooks over recent years. I love the magic of sketches; like poems they have the ability to transport you back to the moment in time when you created them with the memory fully intact. The smell, the sounds, the temperature, the feeling simply of being wherever you were then captured often in a few simple marks or lines. Also how they and studies can springboard you into new work and then continue to inform and inspire that work.
I realise that one of the things I've missed while studying for the BA and MA is the simple joy of sketching for its own sake. With the freedom of my new status as an independent, post-study artist, I look forward to enjoying that again.
![Annie's Pond A sketch of a pond in our friend's garden](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Annie_pond_thumb.jpg)
Annie's Pond
![From the Terrace Zakynthos Pencil and watercolour sketch in the garden of a villa on Zakynthos](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/From_the_Terrace_Zakynthos_thumb.jpg)
From the Terrace Zakynthos
![Fussels Iron Works 1 Creta pencil and wash sketch of steps at Fussells Iron Works, Somerset](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Fussels_site_1_thumb.jpg)
Fussels Iron Works 1
![Fussels Iron Works 2 Wax pencil and oil pastel sketch done at Fussell's Iron Works. Looking out from a dank tunnel.](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Fussels_site_2_thumb.jpg)
Fussels Iron Works 2
![View from the Window, Galicia Wax pencil, Cretacolour and wash sketch done from the window of a cottage in Galicia](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Galicia_top_section_thumb.jpg)
View from the Window, Galicia
![Ma ill Pen and wash study of ill woman](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Ma_ill_thumb.jpg)
Ma ill
![Martin newspaper Wax drawing pencil sketch of Martin reading the newspaper.](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Martin_newspaper_thumb.jpg)
Martin newspaper
![R & M's Olive Trees Oil pastel sketch of olive trees in Cugnoli, Pescara, Italy](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/R__M_Olive_Trees_thumb.jpg)
R & M's Olive Trees
![Thlemaxos Pencil and watercolour sketch of Thlemaxos, a fishing boat moored in Galata, Greece.](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Thlemaxos__thumb.jpg)
Thlemaxos
![What are these things? Creta noir, watercolour and body colour study of some strange, grape-like things at Hengistbury Head.](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/What_are_these_things_thumb.jpg)
What are these things?
![Skull Studies Investigative sheep skull studies in acrylic paint for a later image called 'Smile'.](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Skulls_for_Smile_1_thumb.png)
Skull Studies
![Skulls Collage Investigative collage of sheeps' skulls using acrylic paint and newspaper on a dark prepared background](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Skulls_thumb.png)
Skulls Collage
![Dead Mole Graphite and watercolour study with pencil notes of a dead mole](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Mole_thumb.png)
Dead Mole
![By Lake Bracciano A pencil, watercolour and bodycolour sketch done at Lake Bracciano](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/By_Lake_Bracciano_thumb.jpg)
By Lake Bracciano
![By Lake Bracciano 2 A Creta pencil and colour wash sketch of a fisherman done at Lake Bracciano](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/By_Lake_Bracciano_2_thumb.jpg)
By Lake Bracciano 2
![Luke's Big Pears b/w Creta noir sketch of some big, knobbly pears.](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Lukes_Big_Pears_bw_thumb.jpg)
Luke's Big Pears b/w
![Luke's Big Pears - colour Cretacolour and wash sketch of Luke's big, knobbly pears.](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Lukes_Big_Pears_c_thumb.jpg)
Luke's Big Pears - colour
![Slovakia Site Cretacolour sketch of dappled sunlight and a waterfall at the camper site in Slovakia.](https://amazon.clikpic.com/wendym/images/Slovakia_site_thumb.jpg)
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