Can't avoid the boid!!!

Don't know what sort of birdie this is - but it's pillar-box red and with the longest beak EVER!

feeling a bit of a goose....

...for cheating and posting a journal entry into my sketchbook - but he was so bold and handsome and CURIOUS, I couldn't resist!

still communing with the bees....

last page in the sketchbook...

Bee...

t-and-em

still fiddling with illuminated letters...

'A' is for.....

s-entials

I drew the outline with a mapping nib (Oh! Agonies!!) and then scanned it and coloured it in photoshop to try out colour schemes before properly illuminating it...

Am I bloo-ooo? without yoo-ooo?

....tra la laah, la la laah, la la laaaaah.

spec-ial effects.... (get it??)

kipper's for breakfast (if he doesn't behave)

It'll be ok, it'll be ok.......

what a handsome boy!!!!

I extracted this fellow from my journal entry for today...

omega threes, raw....

when I was 17...

anuvver 'umble bird, like...

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?!

oh deer!!!

everyone wants to be beautiful...

...even me...

brown rice and chicken-in-prosciuto...

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

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.

recognize this little critter??

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

craving a bit of colour this morning...

a furbie that I saw in the park ...

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

e-girl...just like me...

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!

winter sparrow..

Not many of these to be spotted in the centre of London, nowadays...

water colour, guache and pentel pocket brush pen

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.

the goils...