Left-handed Sketchbook
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by Richard
9h ago
My attempts at drawing – and, even more tricky, writing – with my non-dominant hand. Guest artist: my great niece Florence, who drew the snowman with the psychedelic mandalas. After several over-enthusiastic sessions trimming back the rowan and crab apple with secateurs, the doctor has suggested that I take a break from anything too strenuous with my right hand for a couple of weeks, so no more big pruning sessions, but I will be doing some gentle exercises with a squeezy soft ball ..read more
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Secret Walls
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by Richard
3w ago
George Street, Wakefield: Wall-rue and Maidenhair Spleenwort on a brick wall which probably dates back to the days of the cattle market, and a mossy pool on the roots of an old flowering cherry. The ‘well kept secret’ herbs and spices are served at Kentucky Fried Chicken, Westgate Retail Park ..read more
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First Day of Spring
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by Richard
3w ago
It rained for much of today but by 4 o’clock the towering cumulus clouds had passed over and it was bright enough to encourage me to put on my 1970s black wellies and cross a soggy, mossy lawn to trim back the ivy by the shed. The birds are already singing and showing interest in denser sections of the hawthorn hedge. Luckily I pruned the rowan, crab apple and the holly hedge at the end of the garden a month ago. Barbara spotted some frog activity last week and today I noticed two clumps of spawn in the usual, sunniest, corner of the pond ..read more
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All Sorts of Walks
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by Richard
3w ago
Liquorice lovers historical and legendary get walk-on partsintroducing my booklet ‘All Sorts of Walks in Liquorice Country’ (2010). Drawn in Procreate Dreams on the iPad. Music: the folk song ‘Shepherd’s Hey’, transcribed using GarageBand ..read more
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Navigators
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by Richard
1M ago
Ahoy there! Happy birthday to Rob. My first homemade card that includes a porthole ..read more
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Were-Wolf Walking
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by Richard
3M ago
My first experiments for part of a longer animation celebrating Baring-Gould’s Centenary, using Procreate and the new animation program, Procreate Dreams ..read more
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Flame, Flood and Were-Wolves
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by Richard
3M ago
Baring-Gould in Horbury In 2024, the Baring-Gould Centenary year, we’re celebrating – in artwork and animation – his work inspired by the time he spent as a young curate in Horbury: the hymn ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’, his folklore study ’The Book of Were-Wolves’ and his semi-autobiographical novel, set in a thinly disguised version of Horbury, ’Through Flood and Flame’. Cue thwarted love, dramatic disasters and the villainous Richard Grover, man-monkey and firebrand preacher. Special thanks to local historian Keith Lister, author of ‘Half My Life’, the Story of Sabine Baring-Gould and ..read more
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Trouble at t’Mill
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by Richard
3M ago
As the title is Through Fire and Flood, I don’t think that peril number 2 will be a plot-spoiler for anyone who hasn’t read Sabine Baring-Gould’s melodramatic novel ..read more
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Hugh Arkwright, ‘Through Flood . . .’
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by Richard
3M ago
Meet our hero, Hugh Arkwright of Arkwright’s Mill in Sabine Baring-Gould’s thinly disguised version of Horbury in his semi-autobiographical novel of 1868, Through Flood and Flame. I’ve gone for him encountering peril number one, the flood. I based the action-hero pose on an Indiana Jones movie poster but as Indy is holding his trademark bullwhip and our hero Hugh was negotiating the flood walking along a garden wall clinging onto a clothes line to keep his balance, I’ve shown him in a later scene which involves a rescue by boat (although in that case Hugh is catching the lifeline rather ..read more
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Annis Greenwell, Mill Worker
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by Richard
3M ago
Despite the melodrama and the larger-than-life characters, Baring-Gould’s novel Through Flood and Flame was semi-autobiographical. Annis Greenwell was closely modelled on Grace Taylor, a young worker at Baines’s Mill, who – in real life – he met, fell in love with and, a few years later, in May 1868, married at St Peter’s, Horbury ..read more
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