Some landscapes in ink and paper. Available subjects include: water tanks, snake skins, possum traps, beer bottles, gum trees, gravel and unidentified foliage.
Photo: profuselyillustrated.com
Does my retinal artery look big in this?...
Eye tests are better than anything.
I am pleased to say both rods and cones are doing fine.
Photograph: S. Ferguson.
No longer under the flight path…
At home I am below a major airport flight path. I miss the predictability of it all. You can set your watch to it.
Procrastinating for profit...
I'm lucky to have Judith Kentish's studio at my disposal for a few weeks. Its previous life was as a church. I have a lot of things to start, drawing mostly, and have bought a large bottle of ink. In the meantime I am procrastinating like a champion. There are many ways to do this:
Pretend you're looking at paper.
Pretend you're reading something associated with what you're about to do.
Make an urgent phone call.
I think there's someone at the door.
Better go to the shops now in case they close early for some reason.
Go to the beach first.
Gain a better vantage point.
A new perspective helps enormously.
Maybe not. Try exercise.
Eventually.
In hot sun, my ink dries quick...
Subtropical rockery with palms. 12 noon.
Looking east.
Looking west.
Looking north-east.
Looking south.
Not even looking.
In the garden…
Sit, dog...
Dog sitting involves many skills including keeping your dog entertained. Here, Sam's tableaux vivant 'The Five Seasons' occupied the hours before breakfast and after a swim.
Look before you lap...
Calculations for my morning swim afford an economical use of my arms and legs.
All aboard…
The studio is moving over the next two months. It will soon have a very sunny disposition and I will miss the je ne sais quoi of where i work now.
There's A Bug On My Arm That Won't Let Go is GO…
A new picture book is now in production for publication in 2017. If you like cats you may like this book. If you are a bird, you will hate it. If you like Christmas Beetles (like I do,) you will like to hang about long enough to find what happens to a bug in new and unfamiliar surroundings.
The book is set in a garden, overseen by a black cat and a bird in a tree. It's also set in Sentinel Book and Bold. You'll find a bathtub in the backyard and a garden hose with a life of its own.
“A weed is simply a plant whose virtues we haven’t yet discovered”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The UK jacket.
Garden cuttings.
If you look hard enough you'll find a stink bug.