The Cottages - Finished

[DTCwordfan]

Finished - just before the rain comes in....

Excuse the greyness of the board - in real life it is cream. It's my cheapo Samsung camera.

I'll get into my printers and get a digital copy at some point.

Next the main house, perhaps.

https://imgur.com/BYdMil1

[Mamyalynne]

Lovely result DT, well done.

[Lie-in King]

Really good, DT :-)

[jourdain2]

Very nice indeed, DTC.

[Atheist]

Very good, DTC. What medium is it? Pen and ink?

[calmck]

Really lovely

[shoota]

Fennel
Focaccia
Figs
Flageolets
Fungi

[Chipchopper]

A very fine piece of artwork, DT.

[Atheist]

Fennel off, Shoota, you're in the wrong shop.

[shoota]

My brain cell was having a nap Atheist.
It's overworked...

[The Builder]

Shoota's shot himself in the foot... again ;o)

Absolutely wonderful, DTC. Classic Cornish cottage.
Growing up in Penryn and Falmouth, I spent a good deal of my childhood playing in Enys Woods.

[DTCwordfan]

The Bluebells are looking good, Builder!

Pen and ink, I use a brand called Copic as they grind down quicker than Rotring and I can use the old ones for texture effect.

[sanmac]

As usual, excellent work, DTC...That is some talent and skill. You and The Builder might be interested in a book by Terence Frisby called "Kisses On A Postcard." It's about children being evacuated from London to Cornwall during WW2, and their resulting mini-adventures. For some reason, I remember a hamlet called Doublebois being mentioned.

[Canary42]

Brilliant penmanship

[The Builder]

Excuse me, DTC.... but thanks to Sanmac for that. I see there's a Kindle of that for £4.82. I shall try it.

Although I'm 50s/60s, there was still talk of the children who came down during the War.
Doublebois (pronounced "Double boys" is way up near Liskeard. A foreign country to us ;o)

[sanmac]

Hope you can get it. I've read it once, and intend to read it again soon. The author was one of two brothers who spent 2 or three years in that area of Cornwall.

[DTCwordfan]

Doublebois, the hill dual-carriageway is a favourite place for the police to be lingering in wait....the last stretch before the long drawn out road to St Awful and Trurra or the twisty road up the Glynn Valley. Nothing famous about the dump though! It's only claim to fame was that it had a railway station prior to Beeching's axe descending in 1964.

[eleanor2]

Just beautiful Dt.

[chrissa1]

Lovely, DTC.

[The Builder]

Mmmm St Awful is about right.
We knew it as Snozzle ;o)

[Canary42]

Your work reminds me of my childhood days when I tried to emulate my stepfather (professional artist), but sadly my attempts to draw from nature/life were absolutely abysmal and I soon gave up.

I did have one slight skill (?) and that was in copying the wonderful illustrations from a very old edition of Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne which contained some wonderful illustrations by Edmund H New - one example of which I show here - Edmund's, not mine :-)

https://imgur.com/OxBIbiP

(alas, the Selborne Yew was felled by a storm late last century).

Your meticulously detailed works put me in mind of Edmund. Please keep posting them.