I found a couple of pictures of my worktable on the camera and thought I'd share them. The first one is from my studio:


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Tonight's supper - homemade burgers. Not that we have any real idea how a genuine burger should be, but we've composed our own version.

Favoured ingredients:


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Not your regular phone doodle - I was too nervous to do much. The budding willow twigs were added later and are more of a frame on the pages - the perspective and lighting are completely unrelated to the other objects on the page.


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Last day of the holidays - tomorrow it's back to a slightly more normal structure. The girls are moaning about the holidays being too short, and S was hoping for a blizzard to shut the school down (heee!), but I won't mind going back to slightly more structured days ( Read more... )

Today's sketchbook diary entry can be seen here, on sketching_daily.

I went to the cinema with a friend today and saw The Kite Runner. ( A bit on the film. )

An extra page from last night and a drawing from today - the second one is rather weak (especially compared to the first), but I've decided to post every page I draw in the sketchbook diary, regardless of quality.

( Two spreads from my moleskine )

Day three of the sketchbook diary:


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So, today felt like the first day of the Easter hols. M brought me a lovely breakfast out in the sun-room:


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I think the little hedgehog has found a home in the stack of old tiles and roofing sections out back. Today I caught him nosing around the lawn, snuffling and poking about the grass and happily munching on whatever it was he found in there - probably slugs, worms and caterpillars or the like... Here he is, hiding his head in the grass when I first ( Read more... )

S cleaned the house today - I pay her to do 2½-3 hours of cleaning every Sunday, which gives her money for her manga and mobile and the rest of us a nice clean house. However, while she cleans we're practically homeless, as she won't have anyone under foot while working. So today I was exiled to my bedroom, which just has room for our bed, a ( Read more... )