(…Another lyric that just wouldn’t leave my head! I hope you’re a fan of this Frozen song. If not, I can only apologise!) Just a short one from me this weekend. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been busy with a couple of Christmas projects and I wanted to share this one with you. IContinue reading “Do you want to build a snowman…”
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Paco the Toucan
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”
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”
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…”
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…”
A long walk (or ‘wawk’)
Ages and ages ago, my partner and I decided that we’d walk to Stratford-upon-Avon at some point over August bank holiday weekend. Back then, I’d assumed this would be about as long as the road route. So, around 9 miles. Quite long but definitely doable in one go. A few weeks ago, however, it wasContinue reading “A long walk (or ‘wawk’)”
A little more motivation
I woke up this morning feeling seriously de-motivated. It’s becoming a more regular occurrence – it could be something to do with the darker mornings or I might be going through one of those ‘what on earth shall I do with my life’ cycles – and I really felt I should do something about it.Continue reading “A little more motivation”
A Curious Critter
I promised my Instagram followers that there was a good story behind my recent watercolour of a squawking starling. I do therefore hope that the main event in this post doesn’t disappoint! Starlings often get a pretty bad rep. Their Latin name, for example, includes the word vulgaris – I think this means ‘common’ ratherContinue reading “A Curious Critter”
Ramblings of a (very!) amateur artist 