Showing posts with label Sketchbook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sketchbook. Show all posts

Another treehouse drawing

It was such a beautiful day. We sat outside drinking tea just after we'd arrived. Some small children were playing nearby, I say 'playing', they were actually just entertaining themselves and each other by finding different ways to get from the top of the 3 steps to the bottom. There they were jumping down the steps and then sliding down the steps and then hopping down the steps backwards...such simple pleasures! I'd come with my parents to see the Alnwick Gardens which were very colourful. We walked around the gardens at a snail's pace we'd certainly picked a great day to come. The sun was shining, not a cloud in the sky.

Then when we came out on the way back to the car there it was, this incredible house built into the trees. Not just a few planks of wood nailed in between a couple branches but something that I could imagine Peter Pan and the Lost boys living in. I was huge, it scaled across a number of trees connected by rope bridges. There were different levels and an incredible view if you went through the restaurant (yes a restaurant) and up through the back stairs to the top.

This is just one small part of it.

80s

Museum sketches

Today I went with my Dad to the Great Northern Museum today (formerly The Hancock Museum) for some inspiration.

Elephant skin and my Dad (this is actually a drawing from a photo I found when I got home that night from about 24 years ago. He's a baldy one now.)

T-rex

Common Tern (Stema Hirundo)

Greylag Goose (Anser anser)

Oh I also saw 2 dead people today...a real-life (but dead) Mummy and The Lindow Man, a man who was discovered in a bog. His body was in a glass case. There was still hair on his head and his head was caved in a bit. It was really gross. I did not draw this.

Ben

Heres a bit of a drawing of Ben. It's not finished yet...

silly mouth

Wrestling cowboy stags