This was our last drawing out session of the summer. We met at The Leather's Smithy and I walked along the reservoir and then dropped down to the little valley and Bollin Brook, where I settled and did some drawing. It was lovely down there with the dappled...
Some more sessions drawing out and about. One week I actually decided to try painting from life. I haven't done this for years, and although it is not altogether successful, there are bits of it I really like. Even more importantly I like the fact that I did paint...
I am really enjoying almost weekly trips drawing out, weather and other commitments permitting. A few of us usually turn up and coffee and cake often features, but also drawing. These little things are fun, not too precious and sometimes turn out well. It is good to...
I took the spanner prints into photoshop and produced some patterns with a background I found with some interesting rings on it. I like the way it turned out and then I reversed the colours and I like that as well. It has a real feel of tools that are well used and...
It seems a lifetime ago but, before lockdown, a friend and I were working on a joint project about our dads. I had started thinking about making some books to display, each one related to a different apect of my memory of him and my first thought had been his garage...
At last a day when the weather was nice enough to sit and do some drawing - again! Took my trusty little book, that is now nearly full, and a small pencil case for a walk to Danes Moss Nature Reserve on Monday. It was a beautiful, still, warm day with all the promise...
A bit of a late post for these drawings. Amazingly we managed some life drawing sessions in the autumn... truly a moment of sanity! My website has been poorly but is back up in a new and improved format, so I thought I should put up a new post. This model was great...
The small pleasure I got from these two little drawings in the last couple of months is reassuring in a year where any pleasure has been in short supply. The alder was drawn at Riverside Park in Macclesfield, where I met up with a couple of other people for a socially...
I can't believe its a year since I put something on my blog. This year has been particulalrly difficult and as a result I have picked up a few half started, waiting to be started and half finished projects. This little embroidered elephant is a Stef Francis kit that I...
I have been making unique print cards, with both a Gecko design and Guineau Fowl. I like the way that having created a plate I can ink it up however I want and print it alone or incoorporate it with other media or print elements. I look for a main element that is...