The other challenge photo from Broadstone Art Society this week is a seascape, well a photo of the donkeys on Weymouth beach. I think I made it look like a cartoon!

This week’s portrait at Broadstone art society is of Lisa. This is from a photo I took during a shoot with Lisa in 2011 when I did more photography than art. Lisa often modelled for me when I did product photography for a couple of clothing companies.

I was following the Sky Arts portrait artist of the week this morning and attempted a quick portrait of Will Young. This was not my best portrait, I put his eyes too close together and gave him buck teeth! I enjoyed the program and may try again next week.

I joined an on line life drawing class this afternoon with Kenzo at Love Life Drawing. He is a very good tutor if you want to learn figure drawing and today was talking about line weight. As I like to draw with a pen I finished each model with time to spare so couldn’t resist adding a bit of colour. There was a female model as well but I shaded under her chin and it looked like a beard so I didn’t photograph that one!

This is my 7th portrait for NHS heroes. This time it is Jo, a nurse at Lilliput surgery. I met her when I went in for a routine blood test so I am glad she stuck a needle in me before I painted her portrait!

It’s a beautiful day here in Dorset so I cycled down to the harbour to paint a picture. It was very crowded around the beach but I managed to find a secluded spot to sketch the a North Haven Yacht Club which is built on a jetty out into the harbour. I had my sketchbook, pens, pencils, water brush but forgot the paint! I had a water soluble pen so Ai used that to put. Some tone in and added a little colour when I got home. Not a great start to my first plain air trip for more than 7 weeks.