Capturing a Character

Wainwright portrait preliminary sketch

Andy produces a pencil drawing of the famous guidebook writer, Alfred Wainwright. UPDATE 12/2/23: Due to requests and the response to this work on this website and across social media I have decided to release a Limited Edition print of this drawing. There will only be 75 copies printed and…

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New Year Challenge

Andy Beck new sketchbooks

Holidays and Birthday over, time to get back to work. Amazing to think that 35 years ago today (5th January 1988) was my first day as a civilian after leaving the RAF Regiment. I had plans that from that day I would be a full time professional artist. The intervening…

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Pop Up Shop Prize Winner

Pop up shop prize

During the four weeks of the pop up shop we ran a draw to win a large photographic print of Upper Teesdale. This image of mine has proven to be very popular, both as a print and also as a greeting card. Anyone who subscribed to this website over that…

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Guess the Fell Quiz 2022

Guess the fell 2022 day sixteen

The results are in! This year’s theme: Figures on the Fells Below are the results for the quiz. Thank you to everyone who entered and well done to the winners. The grid reference section proved to be interesting and took a bit of marking but I think it added a…

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Watercolour Chart for beginners

Watercolour Chart for beginners

A new film now on my You Tube channel. This new film may be of interest to anyone who is either new to watercolour painting or just struggles to get clean, fresh colours in their paintings. I take a step by step approach to making one of these useful charts…

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Planning ahead

Andy Beck Great Yorkshire Show

Making plans for a busy summer 2022 It may only be January but already we are preparing for a very busy 2022. Last year we ended up attending something like 23 days of shows and events. Despite them being very hard work it was wonderful to be back “on the…

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