There's Olive!

Olive wondering what we know not what.

Me and my shadow

Agatha & Claude

Agatha and Claude are real birds.

Omar sleeps

Omar hard at work. He is dreaming of tinned turkey and fresh chicken rissoles.

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Waiting for Olive

Where is Louise's invisible cat?

Sketchbook birds

Drawn on Grand Final Day.

It was a draw.

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Little Cross Blue Caps

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Hastings!

One more time

...but facing the other way.

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From the sketchbook

Drawn at the end of yet another long hot January day. Tomorrow, the Botanical Gardens.

(12.01.10)

From the sketchbook

Drawing the things before me, my cup and saucer, and looking at fabric found in the parlour of Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire.

From the sketchbook

Stella asleep in the garden.

In one of her more peaceful moods.

From the sketchbook

Making the most of the scanner, here is another detail. And a clipping to Menagerie, an exhibition of contemporary indigenous sculpture at the Melbourne Museum.

(08.01.10)

From the sketchbook

More from my Fabriano Classic artist's journal.

Someone else I know is also drawing a lot.

Trying to keep my sketch book close at hand

Attempting to draw at least once a day, every day. Here is one of many recent January sketches. This one is of an Indian tin bird on a Hungarian mat.

(04.01.10)

In my garden,

They've found the seed!

Tuesday plans

Tomorrow it is forecast to be 37°C.

This is where I will be. Indoors with Stella. Reading a book or two.