Momma duck and ducklings

Visitors to the garden, in Indian ink with a dip pen.

Blackbird skull studies

From my slowly growing collection of 'nature table' items! Graphite and ink studies of a blackbird skull.

Gorgeous greyhound

Various fineliner-type pens and a white gelly roll pen on Strathmore toned paper (A4). A sketchy pen portrait of a gorgeous greyhound.

Inky giraffe

Long long time without posting to this blog! Hoping to get back into it a bit more regularly. To start, here's an inky giraffe - Lamy Safari pen with Platinum carbon black ink, in a Stillman & Birn Epsilon sketchbook.

St Neots plein air

I spent a pleasant couple of hours last weekend at Riverside park in St Neots. I don't often do landscapey type things, especially not plein air, but I really enjoyed the sunshine and fresh air, and I got to visit a place I'd not been to before (despite it only being a few miles from where I live, tut tut!)

Ink and watercolour, about 5 by 8"

Smart starling

Here's a watercolour I've just finished, inspired by a European Starling that sits in a tree outside my window, singing a good version of a car alarm...

and a few progress shots...

The remains of tulips

A guest staying with us a couple of weeks back very kindly gave me some tulips, which were gorgeous while they were flowering. Once they were past their best they were all the more interesting to draw!

Watercolour and coloured pencil, Stillman & Birn zeta sketchbook.