This is the start of the second image for my grid. The lovely black and white stones were my souvenirs from this years holiday in Wales. Somehow I can never resist a stone or a shell. A couple of years ago it was seaweed!! Something else I need to do something...
This first little drawing is finished, at last! I wasn't sure about the shell in the back but I think the fact that it is broken and the contrast of the colours works well. It will be part of a series of identical sized images and I have a good idea of what I...
Jodrell Bank has been running a project to create a community quilt inspired by the celestial marvels that have been discovered. This is to help mark 80 years of discovery, exploration, and connection with the universe at the site...
I have done a bit more to the shells. It feels slow but the black and whites shells are quite intricate. The limpet has worked really well. Now I just have to make the broken shell at the back work. Hopefully I am going create a grid of 6 or so images, but I'm...
Been in the studio a bit more and started a little project. So far I am really enjoying it, so I hope its going to lead to me getting back more often and doing some of the things I have been thinking about but not doing! I am not long back from a holiday and picked...
First time in ages I have been to Life Drawing. Took my usual random selection of papers that have made it onto the life drawing pile, packing paper and sugar paper from an old scrap book this time. I try to limit what I take to draw with or else I get bogged...
Not long back from a fabulous 3 weeks in South Africa. Very pleased with myself as I managed to do 5 little drawings. I took my lovely little Hahnemühle water colour book and a new Rosemary travel brush, that I got for my birthday, along with a small set of...
I just had a lovely weekend in Liverpool, the city where I went to University. I wandered around old and new places and visited the Metropolitan Cathedral, where I did some drawing. The cathedral was somewhere I used to go and sit and the inside is truly...
I have just done 3 days of painting at Bullclough Art School . Earlier in the year I decided I wanted to learn something new and have been interested in trying oils. I signed up for a course at Bullclough with a tutor called Tom Voyce. It was excellent. The...
Well at last I have cut another Lino for the series. I like the result very much, it may still have a bit of editing but for now I will leave it alone and get on and plan the next one. I am not sure why it took so long, it has been half done for ages. Anyway I...