Been travelling around the area a bit with our visiting friend, Alaskan artist Valisa Higman. Here's a drawing from our trip with Stuart, Philip and Sarah Reeve to Sidmouth beach, on the Devon-Dorset coastline.


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Ink drawing of this week's Gerald Leslie Brockhurst #PortraitChallenge for StudioTeaBreak over on X/Twitter. I love this portrait, Dorette has such an enigmatic gaze and her hair makes a terrific shape. If you have an X account, check out lots of other people's studies of the same portrait, that hangs in the Watt Institution in Greenock, Scotland ( Read more... )

Here's a little #PortraitChallenge I did the other day, based on the photo in a tweet by Simon Knott, who goes around visiting beautiful old churches.


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There is a rock that is just the right size and shape for hugging. I go out of my way to visit it, in case it gets lonely.


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I have a new favourite coffee spot, Cafe 3 Sixty in Bovey Tracy, Devon. Here's a picture I drew of it!


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While I was in Devon, I went along to meet my friend, hill farmer and artist Cat Frampton at the Manaton Makers fair in Manaton Village Hall, as part of Devon Open Studios.


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Everything in publishing these last few months has been a bit odd, to say the least. Bookshops shut, book distributors shut, postal disruptions, events, cancelled, publishing teams working remotely, publishers being extra cautious, writers and illustrators trying to work while homeschooling children... the list goes on. I'd planned a gap in my book ( Read more... )

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