Triumphant: A Very Slow Drawing the evolution of a big, (very) slow, quiet, determined drawing I have finally finished the Gentle Giant! I first put pencil to paper at the beginning of May, and the final marks were made just before Christmas. An 8-month process that tells a tale of 20-minutes here and half-an-hour there, […]
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The November Pages: drawing trees and owls things I saw, drew and thought about this month My November sketchbook pages are dominated by sketches of trees, Drygrange trees. And birds. Trees and birds, my two favourite subjects. Things change fast in November – at the start it is sunshine through glowy-orange leaves, by the end
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A Love Affair with Drygrange (Lauren’s Photos) I’m in a relationship with woods and moss and dappled sunlight I fell in love with Drygrange the first time I visited. It was a sunny day in May. We had just started house-hunting – in fact, this was the first (and only) house we viewed. We were
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The October Pages: For Moths and Goths things I saw, drew and thought about this month October is the most magical month of the year – I shall hear no arguments about that nor a word said against it. Earlier in the year, I was blown away by January and her glorious late sunrises and
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November to Hogmanay Finishing up 2024 with a roundup of sketchbook pages from the final two months of the year. I was all set for my usual monthly journal post at the end of November, and then I got the flu, or something flu-ish, on the 29th. A long fever followed by the most vicious
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September & October 2024 It got a bit hectic back there, so I’ve bundled these two golden months together… Well, September was a lot. No drama, just very full days. I launched the 2024 Wildlife Calendars at the start of September and OH MY GOODNESS you guys were completely wonderful. It is such a thrill
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December Sketchbook & Journal No big review of the year, here, just a brief record of a beautiful December 3rd December Ready to leap in, head-first, to the festivities. The excitement on Piglet’s face, the anticipation, is magical. We chose an enormous tree and brought it home strapped to the roof of the car. It
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November Sketchbook & Journal I can’t come, sorry, I’m wintering 5th November Ten years since our first date! A whole decade of loving Ross. We left the kids with Granny and Papa and went to walk the path along the Kale water that we used to walk so often with Buddy, back in our Teapot
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October Sketchbook & Journal A month in which the absolutely ordinary, everyday, seemed even more precious than usual. So, October was wet. It started off misty, rainy and weirdly warm. There’s been a couple of hard frosts, but the wet has remained. Enormous puddles (the children are delighted!), brown rivers, stormy weather. Regardless of the
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September Sketchbook & Journal from heatwave to pink Harvest Moon, dreamless nights, and the pages from my lovely day out sketching at Glentress I’m deeply distrustful of any September that dares to start with a heatwave. Wtf. September marks the much-anticipated reunion with the knitwear drawer, the dusting off of the boots, perhaps even the
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