21 Jan 2010

kitty kitty

Well - that'll teach me to draw the date 'cartouche' thingy right in the middle before I start my sketch, won't it?!





18 Jan 2010

16 Jan 2010

everyone wants to be beautiful...

...even me...


brown rice and chicken-in-prosciuto...

...are not what this is a picture of!!!...


14 Jan 2010

stuff going on in the world...

I've been trying not to post my journal entries to my sketch book blog - but today I have't done any fur or feathers! Really just wanted to mark world events - so am posting my 'flickr' journal page.


13 Jan 2010

recognize this little critter??

Excuse the black line - he's from a section of my latest journal page...


11 Jan 2010

a furbie that I saw in the park ...

(glad he couldn 't see the finished product! sigh...) Practice makes ..er...better than this!...

9 Jan 2010

a bit of a bird...

A friend of mine told me in no uncertain terms that yesterdays Sparrow didn't look like a Sparrow it looked like a Great Tit.  

There's no answer to that, is there!


7 Jan 2010

winter sparrow..

Not many of these to be spotted in the centre of London, nowadays...
water colour, guache and pentel pocket brush pen



6 Jan 2010

gull-ible...


Lamy calligraphy pen ( extra-fine nib) with Noodler's 'polar black' ink and water colour; pentel pocket brush for the dark blacks; Uni-ball 'Signo' white pen.



Artrage - a great little programme...

There is a fab little painting programme out there, very cheaply, called Artrage. I have only just started scratching the surface of what it can do - but the paint effects are truly outstanding and very 'real'. The site is here if you want to have a look at it. For anyone who likes to work digitally for whatever reason, yet doesn't want things to look typically 'flat', then this is a good way to go without having to buy one of the heftier and more expensive programmes available.


3 Jan 2010

'nother bird...

I might only draw birds for the rest of ever...


1 Jan 2010