Heat of Summer

 As we head into another very hot and sunny stretch, here's a painting in oil based on a ref photo of my sister sitting in the shade during the last heatwave a few weeks back...

Life drawing again

 More life drawing, and a dabble in oil paint based on a life drawing...

 

 I'm really getting back into life drawing - I'm very much enjoying these sessions!

Life drawing sessions

 I've started going to a local life drawing session, and I'm really enjoying it!

The Garden Birds Project - robin and dunnock

The next two birds in my garden birds drawing project are regular visitors - robin and dunnock.

The Garden Birds project, next drawings

Here are the next two drawings in my ongoing inky Garden Birds project - starling and blue tit.

The Garden Birds Project

Each year I keep a list of all the birds that I see or hear from the house or garden here in Cambridgeshire. Many I see year after year, and others I might spot one year and not another. I thought it might be fun to have a drawing project - ink drawings of all the birds that have made it onto my list over the years.

So for starters, here are the first two bird species I spotted this year - wood pigeon Columba palumbus and house sparrow (male) Passer domesticus.

I'm doing all these drawings in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon series sketchbook, the 5.5 by 8.5 inch size, and I'm using Faber Castell Pitt artist pens and Uni Pin fineliners.



Two down, many more to go!