summer holiday wildflowers

Painted one rainy morning in Blekinge, Southern Sweden, in a teeny wooden housie with a red wooden table and chairs, listening to a Beethoven piano concerto on an old skool crackling radio. Oak trees, wildflower meadows and murder slugs just outside the door, the placid Baltic and my sis's summer house a two minute walk away.

broadway market

Sketched one rare sunny day back in May, where the combination of bench in sun and detailed shopfronts was just too good to resist. Two more Hackney street drawings here.

central line to epping

 

Curiously, older people are harder to draw unobserved. Perhaps they aren't so used to the invasions of privacy a younger generation regards as unremarkable - the constant photographing, blogging and sharing images of ourselves on facebook.  I try to be discreet when drawing on the train, and hope that at the very least I'm celebrating people's individuality in a sensitive, if not always conventionally flattering way.

early summer

on the road to taos, new mexico

From our trip to the Southwestern USA, this was a quick stop to have a look at the river,  and drawing spruce trees 101 for me. More drawings made on the road are on my flickr page, here.

Interstate 40 to Flagstaff

From our trip to the Southwestern USA, a drawing made very much on the road, in the car and on the move.

illustration friday - layer

I'm working on some spreads with these characters, and could see them playing in a stack of mattresses right away. better scan to follow.

almost too lovely to eat

illustration friday - sneaky

That's the local fish shop opposite Hackney Baths, East London, sort of. Acrylic, watercolour and collage on paper.

summer still life - basil

now sadly in decline, the trusty basil plant grown from seed earlier in the year and painted a few months ago.

illustration friday - burning

A quick illustration, one of the first things that sprang to mind. It's not a self portrait, since in the first place there's no ginger cat in the house (yet).

illustration friday - breakfast

this one's for my dad, whose breakfasts are legendary and consist of several courses, even on a weekday. his menu is usually a variation of a smoothie followed by my mom's homemade muesli with fruit and then coffee and toast and a selection of jams and, on the weekend, omelettes. 

watercolour and collage.

illustration friday - giant

watercolour and pen on paper

tulips

prob have to tidy up this image as it's a bit blue, but here it is for now. this was done a month or so ago, using matchstick ends to draw in the lines initially so it'd stay loose and free. 


click on image to enlarge.

watercolour studies - tart and tea

I haven't posted for a while. Been doing some colour studies, research, trying to get somewhere new. This is building up to a series, here's one of the studies so far. I'm hoping for greater simplicity as I go along.