Lindsey Gallacher

I've done a number of sketches of stone piles at the quarry and now transferring one into a fine wire picture. There isn't much of the roll left so I'm enjoying the last moments of working with this lovely wire...

Today's weather is so bad today, I've been sitting at the kitchen table trying out yet more techniques. I love using ordinary household bleach, watered down to lighten Quink Ink. The line drawing is initially drawn using fine line permanent pen which isn't affected by the bleach. Best to water it down first to give different variations in shades.

There are a few glaring mistakes in yet another quick watercolour sketch, tomorrow I shall commit to drawing one that takes longer than an hour! Perched on the grassy cliff top sketching with pen to get the proportions right before the wind gets too much. It's important to draw from real whenever possible to get a lively feel. The difference in this picture us the way the watercolour has been absorbed by the cartridge paper - very different from watercolour paper...

Planning on creating some artwork to make into coasters etc for fund raising for Scrabster RNLI This is the first quick sketch and colour in ...