If I don’t draw and paint every day I don’t know when I will. I started trying to teach myself to draw and paint properly in 2011, but it was a side project to help fill the walls of my pottery studio. And over 2011 and 2012 I would fill quite a few sketchbooks, especially […]
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Gone now but I can’t forget All these shops were demolished Now it is a car park A site of future development Buy Here Behind the Houndshill Or what used to be there This block still feels so familiar to me despite being gone for a number of years, and I still consider Beatties being
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Blackpool Burger Bar Burgers, Donuts, Fish and Chips Blackpool is a hive of activity, selling food to holiday makers along the seafront is a lucrative business. every space is taken up between food and B&Bs and even entertainment. Original A4 watercolour painting with drawing in ink and posca markers. This screams Blackpool Lots of
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North Blackpool Start of the illuminations Plenty of people get food here Before walking through the illuminations Buy here Bispham Kitchen Fish and Chips The Start of the Illuminations At the north end of the illuminations, plenty of people stop here grab fish and chips and then walk through the tableaux section of the illuminations
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Fleetwood High Street My local town Towering facades Buy here Lord Street Deli A towering building I love the variety of buildings on the Fleetwood High Street, it is also a nice walk that follows the tram tracks through Fleetwood itself. A4 watercolour painting on paper
Cleveleys is from the Future Or at least appearing in Star Wars: Andor Series A short walk from my old day job is Cleveleys Cove Cafe, perched right above the sea, the architecture is quite unusual for a local building. At the start of May though it closed for a time as a film crew
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A place we end up on Holiday Near Kilmarnock where we stay Is by the sea has a ferry Available if you contact me Largs a family favourite Holiday destination in Scotland My wife grew up in Scotland and moved down south for University when we were dating and we ended up living in Lancashire
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Golden Mile Attractions Carousel We’ve Got It Central Market Buy Here Pat’s 10p Bingo! We’ve Got it on the Golden Mile I love how blocks of buildings can be so different in Blackpool, all built at different times to different specifications, and some going through a variety of transformations over the years. They don’t fit
Something a bit different Drawn with Posca Markers No Watercolour Love the yellow lines Available to buy here Food 2 Go Fish and Chips Fish and Chips on the Blackpool Seafront I can’t personally recommend the fish and chips here as I have never eaten from this shop myself. The combination of buildings along the
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