Allan T Adams

Beautiful.

I may have done that with my sketchbook while I was drawing it. 😉

Thank you. 🙂

I just lost myself in the scene, took my time & added the colour to the drawing. It's lovely to be able to have the subject to hand.

A drawing of some books on several shelves with objects arranged in front. The objects included some flowers in vases, a reclining giraffe money box, a giraffe ornament, a mug and a zebra doorstop.

Some books for #WorldBookDay. Along with some giraffes & some flowers.

What I love about books is that only are they good to read (& enjoy the pictures in them) they make excellent subjects to draw too.

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A pen and colour pencil sketch of Gromit confronting the villain Feathers McGraw with a rolling pin.

Go on, make my day! Post card I had on the end of my bookcase at work. Sketched over a coffee break. I still have the card somewhere at home...

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Two drawings based on historic photographs of women making and repairing fishing nets. Drawn as aids for work on a reconstruction drawing.

Making a fishing net and women at the fish market. Both are based on photographs by Frank Meadows Sutcliffe, active 1870-1910. The costume and ephemera helped make one of my reconstruction drawings look 'in period'.

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Thank you. 😊

Thank you. Indeed, the new multi storey car park will obscure the buildings in the view. They were the site of York's first railway museum too.

Grotesque figures and moulded stonework outside an open shed used by stone masons.

A half man half beast grotesque and a supply of completed mouldings outside a stonemasons' workshop.

Palettes of completed moulded stones outside the Stoneyard of York Minster with the cathedral in the background.

The York Minster Stoneyard with several completed grotesques and a range of completed mouldings ready for installation on the restored south facade of the Minster.

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Pencil and watercolour sketch of a railway station and engineering works buildings seen across a car park.

Flashback to 2016 & a view of engine building sheds by York railway station. Early railway engineering works, built in the 1840s.

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A gold finch visiting the bird feeder filled with niger seeds.

One of the gold finches has been back again but wouldn't let me get any closer with my phone camera.

Thank you. I drew the scene from a photograph, over a couple of lunch hours at work. 😉

Pencil drawing of a group of people in a street of historic buildings. On the left is a group of buildings with upper floors overhanging the floor below. In the background part of York Minster can be seen between buildings on a narrow street, the former site of a gateway to the cathedral close.

The end of Stonegate, Minster Gates and the Minster, York.
On the left the end of a row of buildings dating from 1318 and 1647.

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A Staedtler Graphite 0.3mm pencil being used to add shading to a drawing of a ruined abbey church. The rough outline of blind arcade beneath the window openings can be seen.

A Staedtler Graphite 0.3mm pencil and Tombow eraser resting on a drawing of a partially demolished abbey church.

Flashback to March 2023 & some work in progress on a drawing of St Mary's Abbey in Museum Gardens, York. I hadn't noticed the buttresses, seen in shadow through the window openings. The church was rebuilt 1270-94.

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Puppy’s First Rain and Puddle 🤗 #TuesdayFun

My board was lovely and sturdy with a set of filing drawers on one side. The top drawer had a handy pencil tray that lifted out. The original parallel motion survived moves from London to Ashford & from Ashford to York. But not a move from the suburbs to the city centre. 🙄

One from the archives
“Hertfordshire Lane”
Watercolour on paper 10x14”
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Thank you. 😊

That is an apt name for your subject.

Followed you back.

Seymour does not look happy. My daughter's greyhound also dislikes the rain but loves the snow. 🙄

It was a shame. I was offered them as the office had no further use of them but had nowhere to put them.

Thank you. 🙂

Watercolour sketch of a Lego model of Wall-E the robot.

Photograph of a Lego model holding a watercolour brush standing behind an easel.

The machine is Wall-E, star of a Pixar animation about a refuse collecting robot left behind on earth when the humans are forced to evacuate the dead plant. He finds a plant still alive under the refuse & nurtures it. A brilliant film. I tried to teach him to draw but he preferred painting.

Drawing of a sofa and bookshelves. On the small table are sketchbooks and a Lego model.

A lot of my recent output had been drawn in sketchbooks on my sofa. Surrounded by books (handy for finding the words for captions).

Pencil and watercolour drawing showing a cutaway view of railway wagons unloading into open bays of the building, a line depot on the Stockton & Darlington Railway.

A fine brush being used to add watercolour to a cutaway drawing of railway wagons being unloaded in a building.

I would have loved to have kept the chair and drawing board. Sadly I didn't have room for either at home. I have managed to do some work similar to what I did with this set up, an example below, but on an A2 size board on the dining table.

A drawing of an office interior. In the centre an AO size drawing board and drafting chair. To the right a computer screen on the desk. In the background a large sash window and notice boards.

How I miss my old workspace. A reminder from FB of my office in 2016, drawn as a record as prepared to take retirement. My last project involved drawing up site surveys on the drawing board I had had since 1985.

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We've looked up the new visitors & found they are gold finches rather than chaffinches. They like the seeds & have been back. 🙂 We often see long tailed tits, coal tits, blue tits & great tits. A robin family lives nearby, little bullies they are. Occasionally some wrens.

I've read the church was rebuilt in the 1400s. I haven't been inside but caught sight of the fine reredos once through the open doors. Many of York's churches were rebuilt then, several were demolished in the 16th-17th centuries. City centres change a lot over time.