ROVING JAY

Urban Sketching during our trip to Turkey. In Istanbul, and at the beaches and cafes of Bodrum. Also sketched during a windy ferry ride to Datca. All Ink Sketches, no Watercolour.

My practice sketches for creating ink and wash bougainvillea in vibrant watercolour.

Here’s how to use a Colour Triad to create colour harmony in a complex beach scene.

Travel Urban Sketching at Lisbon Airport and a scene from my hotel window in Istanbul. Pen and Ink sketches.

Come along with me to Cabanas fishing boat jetty as I explore how to simplify some complex shapes in ink and watercolour.

Sketching seagulls from life isn’t easy. So I think it’s best to capture their character with a loose sketching style. I sketched them walking on the sand at low tide, and dive-bombing the fish that the fisherman were throwing into the water. All Sketching in ink and watercolour.

Want to loosen up your sketching lines? Here’s some simple tips to help beginning sketchers build this skillset.

August 19th Drawing with Dylan live speed sketching event. Portrait poses ranging from 30 seconds to 6 minutes which I sketched in ink and watercolour.

Speed Sketching Portraits for the Drawing with Dylan live event on August 12th 2025. Portrait poses ranging from 30 seconds to 6 minutes which I sketched in ink and watercolour. Vibrant portraits because I decided to use up the paint puddles from a swatching session earlier in the day. Sometimes it’s good to mess around with expressive colour.

Tonight’s Drawing with Dylan live speed sketching event. Portrait poses ranging from 30 seconds to 6 minutes which I sketched in ink and watercolour.

Doug Jackson boat tutorial exploring the use of different weights of ink lines to create depth.

Putting Perdo Lureiro’s sketching tips into practice on a couple of sketches I did during my trip to London. Loose ink and watercolour sketches of Borough Market and Tower Bridge. Leaving out more than I put in.

First attempts at capturing the Cabanas fishing jetty and local seagulls in a fast and loose sketching style.

We discovered Fabrica by accident during a cycle ride between Cabanas and Manta Rota

One of my poems from a published collection about our cultural experiences and the people we met while living in Turkey.

Gallery Page for my abstract, semi-abstract, and abstract realism flower and animal artwork.

A collection of my ink and watercolour sketches of Tavira and the surrounding areas in the East Algarve in Portugal.

Two portrait sketches in ink and watercolour of Anthony Bourdain from photographs. And another portrait of him and a quote that I used to cover one of my sketchbooks. The quotes was done with cut out letters in a collage.

Call for East Algarve artists for the Alvaro de Campos celebration hosted by Artesis Gallery

Gallery page for my ink and watercolour abstract art inspired by my Turbulent Mind dementia poetry collection.

The September 2024 edition of the East Algarve Magazine is available online.

The August 2024 edition of the East Algarve Magazine is available online.

Tavira’s Roman Bridge with the Igreja de Santa Maria peeping through the trees. Rendered in ink and watercolour.

Sketching our local delivery man transporting potatoes to a local restaurant in Cabanas.