Category Archives: landscape

Cricket art?

Posted on July 2, 2021 by Trevor Mill

So, I now have a son who plays cricket. This involves a fair bit of looking at people playing in cricket matches. Luckily I have a sketch book and some pencils to hand. Cricket has rhythms, perspectives, big skies, trees … Continue reading →

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A tree as metaphor

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Trevor Mill

Growth. Japanese ink and pencil on old watercolour paper. 22 x 22cm.This was given to an old friend who has been having a time of it lately. I was thinking of how this tree has had branches snap, has been … Continue reading →

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Beautiful trees.

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Trevor Mill

Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’s tree with sheep, summer 2021. Tester pot acrylic and pencil on 1960’s art paper. Around A3. Probably an old imperial size.Chatsworth is a nice place to spend a few hours, lounging in the grounds, trying not to … Continue reading →

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Derbyshire views.

Posted on September 2, 2020 by Trevor Mill

While staying a week in Derbyshire I had enough time to make a few works. In landscape painting I’m trying to make my viewpoint wide the bridge to get the sense of the way the human eye takes in the … Continue reading →

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Visiting the relatives.

Posted on September 6, 2019 by Trevor Mill

A garden in the summertime. A game of chess.

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Holiday Sketch Series 5: Naples.

Posted on September 2, 2019 by Trevor Mill

Sea Bathers, Naples. An amalgam of the previous sketches, this could well be worked up into a painting. It made all those life drawing classes make sense in the real world. All body shapes out for sunbathing and swimming fun … Continue reading →

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Holiday Sketches Series 4: Pompeii & Hadrian’s Villa.

Posted on August 30, 2019 by Trevor Mill

The main theatre at Pompeii. You can see how hot it was. My wife (the lady in blue) momentarily sat in front of me before retreating to the shade, so she was quickly captured on the page. The sun bleached … Continue reading →

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Holiday Sketches Series 3: Rome

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Trevor Mill

THE PANTHEON. Has to be in Caps really. Probably my favourite building. Some details of all the people and that mesmerising hole at the top of the dome. An earlier version of THE PANTHEON. An impossible building to draw. Too … Continue reading →

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Holiday Sketches Series 2b: Tivoli landscape painting.

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Trevor Mill

Tivoli in the morning. Made over successive days with acrylic and pencil in the fantastic sketchbook made by our great friend, Sarah A… she said I had to fill it with landscapes, something I haven’t really tried before. It’s been … Continue reading →

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Holiday Sketches Series 2a: Tivoli in pencil

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Trevor Mill

The view from our accommodation in Tivoli was sublime. Hills, waterfalls, rocks with caves, a zig zag path into a gorge, a city on a precipice, a misty view out onto the plain and a terraced hillside full of different … Continue reading →

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Holiday Sketches Series: 1 Travel & Pisa.

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Trevor Mill

I love drawing on planes. A captive audience.

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