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Brian
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Some art, some photography, and if you're really unlucky, some poetry.
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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. 🙃

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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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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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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
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February 27, 2018 ·
Oxton Folly, nr Birkenhead

#Usk #urbansketching #WUS #Oxton #Birkenhead #FountainPen #ColouredPencil
December 8, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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Chester Town Hall
England

#sketching #fountainPen #watercolour #penAndWash
#Chester
December 7, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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context
December 7, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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Liverpool, a corner on Upper Duke St, near the Blackie.
I wonder where all the saucer sized confetti came from?

20241102
with Liverpool Urban Sketchers

#UrbanSketching #LUS #Usk
#sketching

#LiverpoolUrbanSketchers
#Derwent #lineAndWash set, #pentel #brushPen
#FountainPen
December 6, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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Brook Hall Hotel, nr Hooton, #Wirral, in the lee of storm Bert

20241124 with Wirral Urban Sketchers

#UrbanSketching #WUS
#Usk #sketching #WirralUrbanSketchers
#pencils #FountainPen
December 6, 2024 at 10:22 PM