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Category Archives: Illustration
Bonfire Night
Bonfire night! I love it! I don’t suppose I’m that bothered about Guy Fawkes etc but I do love sitting out under a starry sky beside a bonfire. We don’t do fireworks as we’re on the farm. Our indefatigable next … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Countryside, Illustration
Tagged bonfire night, cinder toffee, delia smith, fireworks, geese, illustration, migration, parkin, sparklers
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A Borders Scene
Now the clocks have changed we are coming home in the dark. We follow the trail of headlights over black wet tarmac. Little Owl has loved catching glimpses of the moon through the car windows this week. She shouts and … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged autumn trees, illustration, Robert Smail's
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Inspiring soup
First a big apology to any of you who might have followed a link to the Storytelling Centre on my last post and come up with something quite odd. It seems that their Homepage had been hacked. They do know … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Illustration, Making changes
Tagged inspiration, polly paulusma, rima staines, soup, telling the bees
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Hermes
Yesterday evening the farm was bathed in the pink light of the setting sun. That’s a good sign right? Shepherd’s delight and all that. So, hopefully no snow just yet. But then this morning it was also bathed in pink … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged hermes, illustration, once upon a universe, storytelling centre
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Not for the faint-hearted
Here is another image from my illustrated map project that I had been working on at college. I got my grades for it today and am very happy with them. There’s always so much more to learn but I’m getting … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged bulls, castration, chicks, christmas plays, illustration, Larder, maps
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Christmas Cards
My Christmas cards are now on sale in my shop so do go and have a look. They feature my inky drawings of holly and mistletoe. The hand-lettered greeting on the front reads ‘Peace on Earth’. Apologies to those of … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged cards, christmas, illustration, Lucy and Tom's Christmas, night, stars
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The Knitter Magazine
LOOK! The very lovely people at the Knitter Magazine featured my sheep book in this month’s issue about British sheep breeds. Welcome to everyone who is visiting this blog as a result of seeing my … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Illustration
Tagged British sheep breeds, illustration, sheep book, the knitter magazine
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‘S’ is for…
I think I must have had a hormone surge yesterday. I baked a fruit crumble in the oven for tea thinking it was a chicken pie. The topping is the giveaway I … Continue reading
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Tagged Hormones, illustration, innerleithen, printworks, robert smail, s
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Change is afoot
The temperature dropped by 5 degrees this week so it was time to recommission the birdfeeders ready for winter. Little Owl carefully held the plastic funnel as we loaded the feeders with a variety of seeds and nuts. Later in … Continue reading
Little Owl’s Breakfast
We have started doing an on-line drawing surgery at college where we post drawings into a private blog and post comments on each other’s work. I thought I’d start posting my drawings up here too so that I can get … Continue reading →