David
@davidsmith21969.bsky.social
Derbyshire Dales, Pro Decorator, Sketching for fun, 🟩opinions with Eleanor wifey 3 teens👧🏼1🐶2🐱4🐰&🦉’s in the garden. love 🏡 🚲🍺🍷☀️🎼⛺️🇧🇪
Treated Wifey Eleanor to Lamb after a visit to one of the best places I’ve stumbled across in years - Dead Ink Bookshop brilliant. I sketch more than I ever read, I don’t get a holiday enough but I’m a few pages deep already you might have started something - keep it all Derbyshire
August 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Treated Wifey Eleanor to Lamb after a visit to one of the best places I’ve stumbled across in years - Dead Ink Bookshop brilliant. I sketch more than I ever read, I don’t get a holiday enough but I’m a few pages deep already you might have started something - keep it all Derbyshire
Hi, drifting into summer evenings you know the routine now, Pastels on Brown A4, an evolving sketch, and on a Monday for once- Blurry hazy night time warmth. Inspired by 🇷🇴 Theodoros Popa with Evolutie
youtu.be/cZSAGwPfMfQ?...
youtu.be/cZSAGwPfMfQ?...
July 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Hi, drifting into summer evenings you know the routine now, Pastels on Brown A4, an evolving sketch, and on a Monday for once- Blurry hazy night time warmth. Inspired by 🇷🇴 Theodoros Popa with Evolutie
youtu.be/cZSAGwPfMfQ?...
youtu.be/cZSAGwPfMfQ?...
I’d go to bed but the cat seems to comfy to move
April 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I’d go to bed but the cat seems to comfy to move
View from the back garden right now
April 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
View from the back garden right now
Here goes one more time. Was reminded of this cracking track last weekend over a beer but couldn’t remember who the artist was, earworm all week, so let’s have a third portrait! Unbelievable eh!
The Passions, I’m In Love With a German Film Star - pastels on whiteA3
youtu.be/iLn_oMd1DQU?...
The Passions, I’m In Love With a German Film Star - pastels on whiteA3
youtu.be/iLn_oMd1DQU?...
January 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Here goes one more time. Was reminded of this cracking track last weekend over a beer but couldn’t remember who the artist was, earworm all week, so let’s have a third portrait! Unbelievable eh!
The Passions, I’m In Love With a German Film Star - pastels on whiteA3
youtu.be/iLn_oMd1DQU?...
The Passions, I’m In Love With a German Film Star - pastels on whiteA3
youtu.be/iLn_oMd1DQU?...
Nothing new to offer tonight but an old one from last year that made the 2025 calendar come up when I searched my photos for “reflection” so that’s good enough for me
January 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Nothing new to offer tonight but an old one from last year that made the 2025 calendar come up when I searched my photos for “reflection” so that’s good enough for me
Here we go again, becoming a week of faces! Another tricky sketch to test mind and pastels on Black A3.
David Bowie inspired China Girl a great track to worm into your head for the rest of the day
youtu.be/iK6gAbZdhDc?...
David Bowie inspired China Girl a great track to worm into your head for the rest of the day
youtu.be/iK6gAbZdhDc?...
January 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Here we go again, becoming a week of faces! Another tricky sketch to test mind and pastels on Black A3.
David Bowie inspired China Girl a great track to worm into your head for the rest of the day
youtu.be/iK6gAbZdhDc?...
David Bowie inspired China Girl a great track to worm into your head for the rest of the day
youtu.be/iK6gAbZdhDc?...
Suprise - well I think this is not what I’d usual draw.
Prefab Sprout the inspiration to the prompt with Life of Suprises
Pastels on Black A3
Proved a big test but great to make the effort
youtu.be/wiQS3x1skc0?...
Prefab Sprout the inspiration to the prompt with Life of Suprises
Pastels on Black A3
Proved a big test but great to make the effort
youtu.be/wiQS3x1skc0?...
January 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Suprise - well I think this is not what I’d usual draw.
Prefab Sprout the inspiration to the prompt with Life of Suprises
Pastels on Black A3
Proved a big test but great to make the effort
youtu.be/wiQS3x1skc0?...
Prefab Sprout the inspiration to the prompt with Life of Suprises
Pastels on Black A3
Proved a big test but great to make the effort
youtu.be/wiQS3x1skc0?...
Late….Late night sketching….
🇫🇷 The Tower, (Der Turm) with Snowdrop (Pearce-Neige) Pastels on BlackA3
Moody sketching and where did the weekend go?
youtu.be/Q2oGocEHRk4?...
🇫🇷 The Tower, (Der Turm) with Snowdrop (Pearce-Neige) Pastels on BlackA3
Moody sketching and where did the weekend go?
youtu.be/Q2oGocEHRk4?...
January 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Late….Late night sketching….
🇫🇷 The Tower, (Der Turm) with Snowdrop (Pearce-Neige) Pastels on BlackA3
Moody sketching and where did the weekend go?
youtu.be/Q2oGocEHRk4?...
🇫🇷 The Tower, (Der Turm) with Snowdrop (Pearce-Neige) Pastels on BlackA3
Moody sketching and where did the weekend go?
youtu.be/Q2oGocEHRk4?...
Evening, some serious focusing tonight with a beer & pastels on smooth which helped the blur BlackA3, nearly 9.30 before a start, absolutely fab escapism in sketching, helped by a great prompt & a favourite Public Service Broadcasting track with Night Mail.
youtu.be/WFJPYi3JXw4?...
youtu.be/WFJPYi3JXw4?...
January 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Evening, some serious focusing tonight with a beer & pastels on smooth which helped the blur BlackA3, nearly 9.30 before a start, absolutely fab escapism in sketching, helped by a great prompt & a favourite Public Service Broadcasting track with Night Mail.
youtu.be/WFJPYi3JXw4?...
youtu.be/WFJPYi3JXw4?...
Art can have no right or wrong so the abstract is good. Minimal day inspired by The Japanese Guy with Bird Bath.
Keeping it simple with abstract eclectic music you’ve come to expect!
youtu.be/nvlWmNFXsBI?...
Keeping it simple with abstract eclectic music you’ve come to expect!
youtu.be/nvlWmNFXsBI?...
January 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Art can have no right or wrong so the abstract is good. Minimal day inspired by The Japanese Guy with Bird Bath.
Keeping it simple with abstract eclectic music you’ve come to expect!
youtu.be/nvlWmNFXsBI?...
Keeping it simple with abstract eclectic music you’ve come to expect!
youtu.be/nvlWmNFXsBI?...
No drawing time these last few days but your prompt reminded me of this day out several years ago with the girls - Swing
January 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
No drawing time these last few days but your prompt reminded me of this day out several years ago with the girls - Swing
Ay up - I was ready! But anticipated your busy day socialising, hope it went well.
Dutch 🇳🇱 inspired sketching from Spinvis linked to the theme A Candle For You, and as it was a baby shower I now realise this is even better!
youtu.be/ya4G4n1HwQk?...
Dutch 🇳🇱 inspired sketching from Spinvis linked to the theme A Candle For You, and as it was a baby shower I now realise this is even better!
youtu.be/ya4G4n1HwQk?...
January 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ay up - I was ready! But anticipated your busy day socialising, hope it went well.
Dutch 🇳🇱 inspired sketching from Spinvis linked to the theme A Candle For You, and as it was a baby shower I now realise this is even better!
youtu.be/ya4G4n1HwQk?...
Dutch 🇳🇱 inspired sketching from Spinvis linked to the theme A Candle For You, and as it was a baby shower I now realise this is even better!
youtu.be/ya4G4n1HwQk?...
I was going to have a sketch, found the track on Apple Music, then went on YouTube found it but just got absorbed in the ambience and got nowhere, so here is the inspiration, now magic mushrooms just a glass or three of 🍷
youtu.be/GKSFjt5i-CQ?...
youtu.be/GKSFjt5i-CQ?...
January 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I was going to have a sketch, found the track on Apple Music, then went on YouTube found it but just got absorbed in the ambience and got nowhere, so here is the inspiration, now magic mushrooms just a glass or three of 🍷
youtu.be/GKSFjt5i-CQ?...
youtu.be/GKSFjt5i-CQ?...
Recycled sketching again, been a long day and evening, there’s been an Airbnb search going on, that’s never easy, so a sketch in a bit maybe but this fella sits just right.
January 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Recycled sketching again, been a long day and evening, there’s been an Airbnb search going on, that’s never easy, so a sketch in a bit maybe but this fella sits just right.
The cat is closer👍
January 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The cat is closer👍
Great light on the icicles. I’m in the dark with a picture today from a few years ago in the old railway tunnel trail trough the town. It was sooooo cold only seen this twice in 10 or more years
January 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Great light on the icicles. I’m in the dark with a picture today from a few years ago in the old railway tunnel trail trough the town. It was sooooo cold only seen this twice in 10 or more years
This tufty was up a tree in the park last summer, summer a distant memory….. freezing fog here tonight black ice abound after a thaw day
January 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This tufty was up a tree in the park last summer, summer a distant memory….. freezing fog here tonight black ice abound after a thaw day
Eh late it’s never to late, ease into the evening hopefully improving. I’m like DaveTV all repeats but that’s all I’ve had in the box left today after friends over for a winter stew. So Fox from old. Jenny Räisänen the inspiration youtu.be/C88yDGE4NZk?...
January 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Eh late it’s never to late, ease into the evening hopefully improving. I’m like DaveTV all repeats but that’s all I’ve had in the box left today after friends over for a winter stew. So Fox from old. Jenny Räisänen the inspiration youtu.be/C88yDGE4NZk?...
Great coat & sketch, you are on form. I’m tired today lacking inspiration, I’m
No lover of this cold weather, had a Quick Look found a match to an old sketch! Its good looking back on old sketches theres so much id change on this now, anyway the Eurythmics with Wrap it up youtu.be/-gBVpFrKo2k?...
No lover of this cold weather, had a Quick Look found a match to an old sketch! Its good looking back on old sketches theres so much id change on this now, anyway the Eurythmics with Wrap it up youtu.be/-gBVpFrKo2k?...
January 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Great coat & sketch, you are on form. I’m tired today lacking inspiration, I’m
No lover of this cold weather, had a Quick Look found a match to an old sketch! Its good looking back on old sketches theres so much id change on this now, anyway the Eurythmics with Wrap it up youtu.be/-gBVpFrKo2k?...
No lover of this cold weather, had a Quick Look found a match to an old sketch! Its good looking back on old sketches theres so much id change on this now, anyway the Eurythmics with Wrap it up youtu.be/-gBVpFrKo2k?...
Really like by the colours you are getting this week the turquoise is fab. Nothing new yet today might get the chance or energy later, but Hot Drink reminds me of a very old challenge prompt that was Hot Chocolate hence Errol Brown.
January 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Really like by the colours you are getting this week the turquoise is fab. Nothing new yet today might get the chance or energy later, but Hot Drink reminds me of a very old challenge prompt that was Hot Chocolate hence Errol Brown.
and for a Winter Beach January on the Smith’s Calendar. Pastels on A3 transformed into a glossy image.
January 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
and for a Winter Beach January on the Smith’s Calendar. Pastels on A3 transformed into a glossy image.
Yes please for the storm
January 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Yes please for the storm
Robin (Hoods Bay) last house before the sea sketched last January. Pencil sketching a bit of a rarity these days. I imagine being in the house during a huge storm would be something
January 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Robin (Hoods Bay) last house before the sea sketched last January. Pencil sketching a bit of a rarity these days. I imagine being in the house during a huge storm would be something