Jackdaw

I thought I'd try an ink and acrylic combination for this, rather than the ink and watercolour that I normally go with. I quite enjoyed it!

Nice weather for ducks?

Nice weather for ducks? Even the duck sat on the front lawn the other day couldn't take the torrential thundery downpour that suddenly appeared - she got up and waddled to the shelter of the shrubs... I took a photo of these guys a while back and enjoyed sketching them the other day. Platinum carbon ink with a Lamy Safari pen, watercolour, Seawhite sketchbook (square format, which I'm quite enjoying :-))

Chaffinch study

Here's a couple of pencil and watercolour studies of a female chaffinch.

Sketching starlings

Well, the starlings are fledging here et the moment and they are very noisy! I thought I'd do some ink sketches, based on photos I've taken over the past couple of years. Such characters!

And here's a starling dad, looking a bit overwhelmed!

Sketchbook mash-up

From pics I took while wandering around my local nature reserve...

Click the image to see it a little bigger!

Sketchcrawl video: sketching condensed!

Here's a video clip of me sketching at the Institute of Metabolic Science in Cambridge, part of the Creative Reactions/Pint of Science art/science festival...

Creative Reactions sketchcrawl with Cambridge Urban Sketchers


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Thanks to Creative Reactions for the opportunity for some sketching, and to Dr Jacek Mokrosinski for hosting.

Pygmy shrew watercolour studies

Yet another gift from the cat has provided a subject for some studies. This is a pygmy shrew, common across northern Europe. Tiny!

Pygmy shrew studies