Art and Illustration
My daughter took my phone this morning to look at photos. It’s her thing at the moment. She likes looking her baby photos and photos of her with her little brother. At first I was annoyed. I actually think I might be addicted to my phone. But she did me a favour in the
OK so I’m trying to get back into the habit of drawing and blogging. I want to get back to how I started with a daily sketch and a bit of a random thought. It wouldn’t necessarily be related to the drawing so could just be something that happened during the day. Today I’ve got
I’ve been away for a long while and just starting to get drawing again. A lot has happened in the meantime hence the long break: The whole carpal tunnel saga Moving house Problems with the webhosting I’m hoping this is all behind me now and I can get back into drawing and blogging. I have
Well my first drawing after my carpal tunnel hiatus. It felt like the right time. I’d bought some new nibs for my dip pen from Cult Pens, but these were stuck in my car. Luckily I found a sketching pencil. 3B pencil on Rhodia dot pad Just a quick, literally 5 minute, sketch of the
For today’s post – a pen and ink drawing of a long-forgotten exercise machine that’s been shifted through most of the rooms of our house and ended up sat in the corner of our bedroom. I’ll give a prize to the first person in the comments below who can identify this particular exercise product –
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Today’s is just a random drawing. I found a Creme Egg at the bottom of my bag and thought it would be a nice treat for after lunch. It wasn’t in the best of states having been carried round in my bag for months. Let that be a lesson for us all. Chocolate is best eaten
Somehow it doesn’t feel right to do an illustration today. Just a moment of reflection.
I haven’t written here for a little while now or rather it’s been somewhat intermittent because I’ve been suffering with quite bad back pain. Back pain is really common so you’re all probably thinking “And so what!?” Bear with me here – I’m writing as a doctor and a patient I suppose. It’s probably been
I was somewhat saddened by the loss of my favourite Tachikawa Manga fountain pen recently (although I’ve now found it*) but it gave me a chance to look through all the pens I have accumulated over the years. I have a lot of other fountain pens, a couple of brush pens and I also rediscovered
I’ve been having a lot of back pain at the moment and it’s been leaving me feeling tired and more than a little grumpy so I got up early in the morning to try some pilates. It actually helped a bit. Early days but I think I’m going to need to do some regularly to