Just got this shot before my No. 1 (of 3) snowman keeled over after a long hard day above zero degrees. Gave him a new head at dusk and he's right as snow now after a b... freezing night. We're off for a walk now - we might be some time!
Snowquake at Ringinglow Village.
The Protest March by the people of Sheffield ending up at Barkers Pool in the centre of the City. It took a catastrophe for the NHS to be appreciated and applauded! I wonder how long the appreciation will last? Fellow Welshman Aneurin Bevan might not be turning as much as he has been over the last 10 years!!
Following my last post on 10th February - yet a another freebee - the front cover on the Civil Service Club Events Booklet for 2020. The Club is on Great Scotland Yard which is off Whitehall - less than 100 metres from Trafalgar Square. It’s a most convenient place to stay and not that expensive considering it’s location but you have to be pretty civil and a bit of a servant to be a member!
Issue 1 of "Steelmekker" - a new community magazine for our dear old Steel town of Sheffield. That's my painting of the façade of Parkhill flats which they're renovating at the moment. It's on page 5, I wonder if it'll be on the front cover of Issue 2? Not done any painting this year yet!
3 of the new paintings in the enlarged, paperbacked version of my book. Been meaning to do Sheffield City Hall for some time!
Everybody else is doing it, so why not! Visit my website www.brynhughes.co.uk from 1 minute past midnight tonight to midnight next Monday evening (GMT).
I'm going to have to update my painting of St Mark's Square! Venice is the most beautiful place I've ever visited (in 2007) and the place I would most like to revisit. It's been flooded like this before so I hope they get back to normal again soon. Good Luck!
The new Revised PAPERBACK EDITION of my book "Look Over My Shoulder Vol One Revised, Sheffield, Derbyshire & the Yorkshire Coast" 112 pages with 14 new paintings is now available on line: www.brynhughes.co.uk/book-look-over-my-shoulder
Derwentwater Arms, Calver, Derbyshire - on their website: "Traditional, family-run pub dating back to 1708 and serving global comfort food and real ales" - attached is the proof that it truly is a family friendly pub/restaurant. This (early) evening, Stella (in the unicorn dressing gown) with her Dad David and Cousin Rory at the bar. Happy 5th Birthday Stella! xx
(I was walking on the sand in Whitby yesterday)
Lunchtime sketch - Placa d'Espanya, Fornalutx, Mallorca. A postcard from Fornalutx was the reason we first went to the Soller Valley in 1999 and we've been going there every year since
Coffee time sketch from Café Aro, Placa de sa Constitucio, Soller, Mallorca. Right hand entrance to the Church of Sant Bartomeu. Sketched this Church many, many times - twice in May this year!
Coffee time sketch alongside the boatyard at Puerto Soller, Mallorca.
Just back from a searing hot Old Town, Dubrovnik. This is a sketch from the top of a steep street called Ulica Svetoca Josipa, with some tourists looking over my shoulder.
Photos of coffee time sketches of our recent visit to Puerto Soller and the Soller Valley in Mallorca. I filled in 10 pages with these sketches (and notes) of the visitors book of the apartment we were staying in. Liz Baines, the owner seemed worried that I'd used up so many pages in the book! That's her pink scooter.
With Christmas just around the corner I’ve added over thirty new prints to my store. They include some of my favourite views in Sheffield, Derbyshire, Whitby, Scarborough and Robin Hoods Bay.
Visit my Shop section of this website to see all the new prints.
It's Halloween. I've drawn/painted Whitby Abbey many times but I've never seen Dracula nor been bitten by a vampire - but there again I do eat a lot of garlic! This year I thought I should join in the occasion and post a collection of my Whitby Abbey artwork.
It is only when you see it coming off the press does it actually feel real.
Available to order from around 1 November 2018.
A short video showing Bryn's first book being printed at Northend Creative Print Solutions, Sheffield. This first public print run will be very special.
100 menu cards ready for delivery to Mercure Sheffield St Paul’s Hotel & Spa tomorrow
Torre Picada, high above Puerto Soller, Mallorca
