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Inspiration
Paralysed by a huge and complimentary commission recently I was advised by a wonderful friend to go and delve into something inspiring that wasn’t illustration. The illustration world can be a bit ‘cool’ sometimes and that’s the last thing you … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged 60 years, amanda richardson, anniversary, artist, Bovey Tracey, cirl bunting, collagraph, copper series, craft, craft centre, Dartmoor, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, dry point, enamelling, exhibition, fauna, flora, fragments of nature, illustration, janine parting ton, landforms, lynn bailey, mono print, printmaker, satin, silk, textiles, velvet
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August
It is already the 12th of August – where is time going? Before the month flies past I dip into my seasonal reading again. Stephen Moss, in his book Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, describes August as “the height of summer: … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged ancestors, animal cruelty, august, bull baiting, cheshire, chimney sweeps, cock fighting, congleton, congleton bells, countryside, harvest, hlafmaesse, house in the woods, illustration, lammas, natural history, seasonal, sparrow mumbling, Stephen Moss, steve roud, the english year, traditions, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, wildlife
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Eggs
We found this shell in the garden the other day. I was hoping it would be the egg shell of something really exciting. Just recently a species of fly that had been thought extinct turned up on a nature reserve … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged bird egg, detectives, egg identification, egg shell, garden, identification, illustration, natural history, nature, wood pigeon
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Holidays
As today is the first day of the school holidays it has obviously poured with rain all day. Tomorrow we are off on our holidays to Pembrokeshire so have been packing. I’d like to promise sketches on my return but … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged holidays, illustration, Monkey, packing rain, pembrokeshire
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July
In my seasonal reading, Stephen Moss, in Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, describes July as a month of stasis, “a chance to reflect on the rollercoaster ride of spring.” Now chicks have been raised, parent birds are moulting ready for the colder … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged an english year, bees, beetles, birds, butterflies, Derbyshire, dragon, Early reader, Hannah Foley, hummingbird hawkmoth, illustration, july, moths, moult, purple loosestrife, reading, seasonal, snails, Stephen Moss, steve roud, Tissington, well-dressing, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, willow herb
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Rocket box
If you sat quietly in our living room you could be forgiven for thinking that we’ve got a fairly serious plumbing issue. From all corners of the room comes a steady chorus of dripping, punctuated with the odd bubble. There’s … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged beer, box, children, fermenting, home brew, hops, illustration, parenting, periscope, plumbing, rocket, sketch, sketchbook
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Veg patch update
Little Owl did very well in both her performances this week. We’ll be singing the songs to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat for some time to come. I was completely mobbed on the Hook-A-Duck stall at the school summer … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged beans, blackcurrants, courgettes, fruit, gooseberries, illustration, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, lettuce, parent's evening, peas, pumpkins, raspberries, school play, school summer fete, sorrel, spinach, sports day, sweet peas, tomatoes, vegetable patch
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Sketchbook
This week I’m drawing more cyclists.
Posted in Illustration
Tagged bikes, cycling, cyclists, illustration, moustaches, old man, sketching, tandem
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Garden warfare
Itβs going to be a busy week in our house. Little Owl is not just in one theatrical production but two. Then Friday is the school fete. Itβs my first ever school summer fete so Iβm pretty excited! Iβm in … Continue reading
Posted in Growing things, Illustration
Tagged ash tree, children, gardening, Hannah Foley, illustration, illustrator, picture book, seedlings, swimming hippos
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Sketchbook
This week I am drawing cyclists.
Posted in Illustration
Tagged cycling, cyclists, doodles, drawing, illustrations, penny farthing, sketchbook, sketches, unicycle, victorians
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