Back to basics. Basic observational drawing. Himself has been having boxing lessons for a while now and I kept saying I would quite like...

It’s always worth holding on to old work you sort of feel something for even though it didn’t quite work at the time. After a couple of...

Messing with pen and ink is always fun. Inevitably this means calligraphy is fun, except when it’s not. Calligraphy has particular...

Hahahahaha. Hard to take any of this seriously. Liquorice Allsorts spring to mind. And before anyone else says anything, what’s with the...

Taking risks with things I’ve made is one thing but taking risks with someone else’s is something else. I’m currently running a community...

I spent three hours making a bad painting worse this afternoon. It would have made a wonderful dailyfail except my phone seemed to be...

More crayon and combining all that I dislike in a cute pet subject in pastel colors. Things are quite distracted at present. All the more...

Caran d’ache crayons lurking in the bottom of my bag and a new sketchbook/journal with really nice paper that looks as though it will...

An almond tree just down the road which over the years I have drawn, photographed and painted. There’s something about the colours of the...

I began with a collection of photos I had been taking of pleasing colour combinations. I was planning to make colour notes from the...

What I’m most enjoying about the whole #dailyfail exercise is the complete freedom from having to justify time, concept, context, skill,...

More breaking of self imposed “rules” on a series of daily challenges resolutely NOT using digital technology but then again the whole...

I’ve been varnishing furniture in an obsessive-compulsive fashion today, having just refurbished a bedroom with predominantly dark oak...

Still on the greyness of the A58 into town. I am waiting for a decent spell in the studio to do something with these images racing...

Sitting in a cafe, looking out on a grey rainy day, I noticed with interest the dull greyness was punctuated by red-orange at every...

Blind contour drawing over and over within confined boundaries of an oddly angled face. Released from any need for likeness. Always a...

Back to paint. Still messing with stuff that’s been up on the walls for months. I’m away for a few days now, but I always seem to get an...

Just how hard can it be to pull one decent print from a lino cut I’m happy with? Hours, is the answer. Hours, when the printer to print...

It’s no excuse but I can’t begin to explain how hard it is to do any work when additional children appear on the horizon. It was an...

Spent a delightful morning and afternoon listening to young pianists performing in the school piano competition, followed by a splendid...