A very close friend of mine recently asked me to draw something for him. I always get a bit nervous when I’m drawing or painting something specific for someone. The perfectionist really does start to freak out! Luckily he asked me to draw a bird and I’ve drawn quite a few birds this year soContinue reading “Paco the Toucan”
Category Archives: Art Therapy
Autumn Vibes
I’m writing this with the absolute knowledge that all of the leaves have already fallen off the cherry tree in the garden. Some might say that I’ve almost missed autumn, but I absolutely love autumnal colours and have been meaning to paint them – and write about them – for the best part of 2Continue reading “Autumn Vibes”
Off the Beaten Track
I’m really enjoying a particular style of artwork at the moment. Watercolour background and fine liner pen foreground. And I’ve found that it suits some particular sites that I’m drawn to when I’m out on walks: old dilapidated buildings. These sorts of buildings always mesmerise me. I love seeing old ruins but there’s something aboutContinue reading “Off the Beaten Track”
Lockdown Life
I’ve been thinking a lot this week about my last cartoon. I titled it Here we go again and I suppose the only thing I’m a bit surprised about is that the wave didn’t hit earlier in Autumn. And so, on this Thursday 5th November, here we all go again. Plunged into ‘Lockdown 2.0’. IContinue reading “Lockdown Life”
The lonely windmill
I’m not exactly sure where it came from, but I suddenly had an idea early this week about something I wanted to create. I might even be able to say that it was a moment of inspiration… I’d been thinking about some of my pieces from March/April this year. Back when I turned to artContinue reading “The lonely windmill”
You curl if you want to…
…The curlew’s not for curling. I’m sorry. I have absolutely no explanation for that one. When I was thinking about writing this post, that’s what popped into my head. The original Maggie Thatcher saying is likely to make some people angry. It doesn’t even make sense. Then again, lots of my ‘sayings’ don’t… Ok, so,Continue reading “You curl if you want to…”
Two Malhams
In this post, I want to introduce you to a beautiful place. It’s called Malham Cove. For those of you from Barlick and around, you’ll probably already know about this Yorkshire Dales icon. For anyone else, it’s a highly recommended place to visit if you ever find yourself around the Dales in a post-Covid world!Continue reading “Two Malhams”
Pastel, baby pastel
As you can probably guess, this one is about pastels. I don’t think I’ve written about pastels before and, to be honest, I’m pretty scared of using them. But I’ve been trying them out more and wanted to share a couple of pieces with you. First things first. I think the title deserves a littleContinue reading “Pastel, baby pastel”
Here we go again…
Yesterday lunchtime, I was sitting in my lounge reading a BBC article. I think it was about the horrendous experience some self-isolating university students are currently going through. Needless to say, if it wasn’t that article it was definitely one about the pandemic – it could’ve been about the dire state of the economy, theContinue reading “Here we go again…”
A little interlude…
Well, it seems that every time I go on holiday in the UK now, there’s a guaranteed ramping up of restrictions the week afterwards. I can’t say I’m shocked – this week has been a little more predictable than when we came back from our Norfolk holiday on 21st March (I wrote about that tripContinue reading “A little interlude…”
Ramblings of a (very!) amateur artist 