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This is a watercolour painting that I did in Dec 2019 on A3 size 300 gsm cold pressed watercolour paper. I used several photos on the internet as reference for this.

Thank you Joy. Ten minutes is actually a lot of time if you choose an uncomplicated image, concentrate on the major shapes. avoid too many details, and keep your drawing small. These quick sketches that I did were all only 4" x 5" or 5" x 6". To an extent the number of lines that you have to...

This is a ten minute 4" x 5" pen and ink sketch, done with a black ink gel pen. I sketched this in May 2024 when my hand was very unsteady and I was just starting on my ten minute sketches in the hope that it would help steady my hand. It did, but only after I had spent many weeks doing five or...

Thank you Anne.

Joy, that is very modest of you. You actually took several decisions which resulted in such a pleasing painting: limiting the number of colours, your choice of colours, how you used them, and the placement of the elements in your painting.

This is a corner tower in a building in Vienna. My reference was a black and white photo, which I last saw nineteen months ago. I did the 4" x 5" ink sketch in less than ten minutes in May 2024 using a black ink gel pen, and added the watercolour washes a few days ago.

This is beautifu! I especially like your colour palette and the composition.

Thank you Joy. I do have lots of books, and lots of loose sheets, filled with drawings. I have hardly ever throuwn away any of my artwork over the last twenty three years.But not all of them are beautiful.

Thank you Sanlynn. :D🙏

This is a ten minute 5" x 4" ink sketch, done with a black ink gel pen about nineteen months ago. I added some watercolour washes to it a couple of days ago.

Thank you Bart. 🙏 I just love the way you said that.