Walk three: Post Office to Post Office
Our walk from Post Office to Post Office along the Fleetwood High Street.
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Watercolour painting
Walk two: Fleetwood Libraries
We met outside of Healthier Fleetwood and walked up to Dock Street. The old Fielden Free Library once gifted to the town stands out with its Venetian Gothic Arches which were built in 1863. Unfortunately the listed Decimus Burton Building next door is falling down as the lintel has cracked. It stands alone in that
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Why I draw and paint daily
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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Every Month is Star Wars Month
Is May and as I write this the new Obi Wan Kenobi series has been released and I am excited to watch it, and am staying away from social media until I have had chance to watch it with my other half after she gets home from work this evening. Star Wars was a pivotal
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Views of Preston
Views of Preston is my first ever book, it has 56 pages and is all the drawing I did to prepare for Derelict Art of the City micro-residency. I’m really excited to share it with people, and it is available in the shop My favourite pieces in the book I also made into a series
Blackpool Burger Bar
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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Largs Sea Front Views
Such a fun word, Largs means “the slopes” Vikings and scots battled here home of Vikingar! Buy here Largs Sea Front Views A strange sort of tourist trap My wife is from East Ayrshire in Scotland so when we are visiting we often visit Largs seafront, visit the Viking Museum, go on the ferry, eat
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Bispham Kitchen Fish and Chips
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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Lord Street Deli
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
Golden Mile Amusements
Golden Mile Amusements A stones throw from Blackpool’s golden sands The Golden Mile in Blackpool lies between the Pleasure Beach in the South with the South Pier past all the amusements, the Blackpool Tower and finishes at the North Pier. This stretch is Golden because it is where all the foot traffic is and you
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