What’s in the box?

Winsor and Newton field box

A look at my sketching paintbox. Those that have been watching my Youtube videos or other social media posts may have spotted me using a small and compact painting kit whilst out and about. Several viewers have asked me about it. So in response to that I have just posted…

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Capturing characters

Work continues as normal for me during the current Covid19 lockdown. Sketching, paintings and getting out on short local walks is really my daily routine. I am able to get lots of preliminary work done for the Lakeland 365 project. These sketches get posted as a daily “Guess the fell”…

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Off the drawing board

Over recent days I have been planning out new paintings and as with most of my work I produce simple preliminary drawings before I commit paint to paper. One such work was to be of Swaledale sheep, tups (rams) to be exact. For one reason or another this simple sketch…

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New ”Small sketches” page added.

Andy Beck sketch header

Behind the scenes I have not only been working on new projects but I have been spending time working on features of my websites. It has been hard to focus on what is important as I tend to get rather excited about new ideas, especially at the turning of a…

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Moving pictures

 Just a quick blog post- literally. I am currently working on new projects such as The Lakeland 365 which you may be aware of but there is now time for me to work more on paintings and sketches which will be added to this website as and when they become…

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