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Some art, some photography, and if you're really unlucky, some poetry.
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Brian @brianthompstone.bsky.social · May 25
Today at St Matthew's Church, #Bromborough #Wirral
#UrbanSketching #sketching
with #WirralUrbanSketchers #WUS
#Ink, #BrushPen, #Graphite
#Art
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The Tap, at #EasthamFerry, #Wirral.
Pen and watercolour
with #WirralUrbanSketchers, 20250807

#art #sketching #UrbanSketching #WUS
August 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A study in #colouredpencils and waterbrush; a young birch tree in #CallisterGardens, #Wirral,
with #WirralUrbanSketchers, 20250727

#art #sketching #UrbanSketching #WUS
August 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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A housefront near the centre of West Kirby. Brushpens and watercolour in wc sketchbook. The pens misbehaved in this new book, and the sun burned my neck. Par for the course. 🙃

20250630
July 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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The Scent of Teargas in the Morning

#art #watercolour #news #painting
The watercolor painting depicts a group of silhouetted figures walking against a dramatic, smoky sky, with a dark, ominous shape looming overhead. The style suggests a scene of conflict or aftermath, rendered with loose washes and expressive brushstrokes.
June 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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"On Loss"

The Kelpies, #Fife, #scotland.
My #photography, plus twiddling.
2022

#Art #kelpies #photograph #digitalArt #noAI
May 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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An additional ink drawing from last week...

#kleineKunstklasse
#wattiskunst #EastCoastKin
#art #artist #ink #Tusche #ArtYear 🎨
Black ink portrait drawing of Guillaume Asselin (EHC Olten)
May 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Red-breasted nuthatch. Coloured pencil on cotton paper. I used several of my own photos for reference but want to thank Linda MacMillan for the use of her nuthatch photo which gave me details that mine lacked! #Birds #SciArt #WildlifeArt
Blue and orange bird with a white and black head perched upside down on a leaning, half-dead tree.
May 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Amsterdam sketches. On a short trip to Amsterdam I meet Haarlem sketcher and friend Anne Rose Oosterbaan to chat and draw together. Thank you for the great afternoon!
Amsterdam, Magere Brug, Urban Sketch, drawing on location Amsterdam, Prinsengracht, Café, urban sketch, drawing on location Amsterdam, Prinsengracht / Reguliersgracht, urban sketch, drawing on location
May 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Trefdraeth
Watercolour Newport Pembs houses red house trees shrubs power cables
May 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Recently got this stillman & birn zeta series #sketchbook in A4. Can't recommend it enough, fantastic heavy weight paper. I've only done a little bit of light washes so far but it feels like it'll handle full water colour
#art #drawing #urbansketching
May 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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IFA Country Store grain elevators. Draper, Utah.
A5, line and wash.

#usk #urbansketch #urbansketchers #saltlakecityurbansketchers #ifacountrystores #grainelevator
May 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Burway Road, Church Stretton, Shropshire. 10 May 2025
A watercolour sketch.
#urbansketchers #usk #ChurchStretton #Shropshire #Shropshiretowns #placestovisituk #watercolour #watercolor #sketchbook #travelsketches #bakuma #bakuma_art #bakumaart #burway
May 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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View of Safranbolu from the Dadibra Konak •• Platinum Carbon Black ink in a Lamy Safari fountain pen with a Pentel Vistage Water Brush (filled with Pilot Iroshizuku Kiri-same gray ink) and Prismacolor pencil on brown Stonehenge paper • 15” x 11” • Türkiye • May 2025 • #urbansketching #urbansketchers
May 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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20250427

Close to #BurtonManor on the #Wirral with #WirralUrbanSketchers.
#Ink and #charcoal.
#art #sketching #UrbanSketching #WUS
May 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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From 20250223
Too much howling wind and rain for #UrbanSketching in #NewBrighton so I made this #sketch from a photo I took earlier.
The wind still played havoc with perpsective 😉
#ink #Pencils #art #Wirral
May 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Today at St Matthew's Church, #Bromborough #Wirral
#UrbanSketching #sketching
with #WirralUrbanSketchers #WUS
#Ink, #BrushPen, #Graphite
#Art
May 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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I always forget how long it takes to draw the branches …

#birds #BirdArt
Unfinished coloured pencil drawing of a grey and blue bird with red eyes and a blue and yellow beak. The bird is perched on one branch, with a second branch in the background.
April 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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how many scientists or chefs (or reporters) does it take to ruin an egg?

This article certainly cracked me up:
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Hint: don't try this at home

@theguardian.com #cooking #recipe #eggs
Scientists crack what they say is the perfect way to boil an egg
Linda Geddes tests new approach developed in Italian lab that involves alternating egg between different temperatures
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Footloose ...

(#found today on the #Wirral. )
January 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Possibly a “black crowned night heron”, from Hawaii.
Coloured pencils and watercolour on grey toned paper. (About 18cm square)
From a photo by Lucia Maya

#colouredPencils #colorpencil

#pencil

#colorpencils

#art

#sketch

#sketching

#birds

#heron

#tonedPaper
January 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Hawaiian Sunset - mostly an experimental approach to clouds and water (It works best if you stand at the other end of the room …)
Pencils on grey paper.
From a photo by Lucia Maja

#sketching #sketch #pencil #colorPencils #colouredPencil #art #hawaii #sunset #clouds #water
January 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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The last of 2024: suitcases on Hope St, Liverpool. From a photograph.
Pencil on black Stillman & Birn sketchbook

#art #sketch #sketching #colorPencils #colouredPencils #pencil #Liverpool
January 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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#wirral #sunset before the #storm

#merseyside
#photo #photography
January 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Testing a new Stillman & Birn "Nova" sketchbook.
Pencils, Ecoline brushpens, (which were too wet 😢 for this paper), biro.

Somewhere in Liverpool (from a photo)

#sketch #sketching #colouredPencils #pencil #art #liverpool
December 31, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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Another world

#photography #photo
#BoxingDay #Christmas
December 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM