Here are my final eleven daily sketches in response to the prompts provided by whoever runs Inktober. They must be American because there were a couple of words I didn’t understand like bluff where we would use cliff, and booger where we would say bogey.
Continuing on from the last post: some more daily sketches from last month’s Inktober challenge 2022, Days 9 – 20 inclusive. All drawn on the iPad. I’ll post the remaining drawings in a couple of days time, I don’t want to saturate everyone!
I did the Inktober challenge again this year, a drawing every day inspired by a daily word prompt. I was a few days into October when I started but I managed to do a fresh drawing every day for 31 days. I posted them daily on Instagram, but I thought it high time to write…
Happy Poisson d’avril! After sketching this on the iPad ( with the inevitable inclusion of Gypsy, (and I don’t know why they’re dancing the syrtaki Greek dance, I should have portrayed them dancing the Ukrainian hopak…. that’s for next year’s! ) Anyway, I became curious as to whether other countries celebrate the 1st of April…
As regards my previous post in October my resolution is completely out the window! I have been busy on Instagram though, here are some snippets of what I’ve been up to the last couple of months. I’ve been taking loads of painting courses some offered by St Ives School of Painting http://www.schoolofpainting.co.uk with various artists,…
Oh dear, sorry I’ve been neglecting my blog this year. I’ve completely failed this New Years resolution to post monthly, it’s because I’ve been won over by Instagram as it’s so quick and simple, so I’ve favoured that instead. This year has been a learning year for me. Due to Covid changing the pattern of…
I’m not even going to mention politics or viruses, there’s plenty of discussion on that….. Over Christmas and into the New Year I did a series of illustrations on the twelve days of Christmas, it was a daily exercise and it corresponded with the actual 12 days of Christmas. It all started with the zoom…
The Isolation Art Challenge continues with 25,700+ members! The organisers (arttutor.com) have ditched the idea of calling the themes Day 1 Day 2 etc, they’re just staying with theme titles. They’ve relaxed the “rules” and you can pick and choose from the 60 themes for 60 days, doing as many as you like or as…
I joined the Isolation Art Challenge because I thought it would be a good way to keep up my art practice. We’ve been doing house improvements recently so I haven’t had much time to get on with anything substantial, and this seemed a good way to give myself a couple of hours of productivity every…
As usual I have loads of ideas for projects and paintings, but I’m feeling a little rusty; it requires a certain amount of courage to embark on a voyage of discovery paint-wise which can so easily end in feelings of failure and be a waste of precious time, so whenever I have a free moment…
It’s been a busy summer for me with exhibitions, the B&B and the gite etc, things are calming down a bit now. I installed my last exhibition of the year, a 4 day group expo in Brantôme, a beautiful town about an hour north from us, often called the Venice of the Perigord, which is…
We are into 2 weeks into our current job of painting the ceiling above a swimming pool. The first few days involved Graham and I installing and building the bridge, and carrying out what we call “the protection racket”, which is covering and protecting everything that is likely to get splashed with dirty brown liquid when…
I haven’t posted a blog for a while now. Reason? The weather. In January we had thunder and lightening, and high winds causing a major power surge, which, even though the computer was plugged into a ps backup device, grilled the backup battery as well as the sockets. The computer was completely dead after that,…
You may wonder why Graham is peering at the roof through binoculars, well, he is checking his handiwork has been properly carried out, scraping all the moss off each individual tile of course! ( A task that could have been set by Rumpelstiltskin.) I’m sure passers-by think he is quite mad, but when he sets…
All day long yesterday and today we could hear the distant mournful cries of cranes as they fly North from their winter feeding grounds in Spain and Africa, up to the Baltic States to nest and breed during the summer months. They fly above the house twice a year when heading either north in Spring, or south in Autumn. It lifts your heart…
Putting my thoughts about classical music into words.
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