Hairdressing salon

Pencil, pencil crayon and brush marker in Moleskine sketchbook.

Proteas

Ink pen and watercolour in Windsor and Newton sketchbook.

The gardens of Kirstenbosch in the Cape province of South Africa, with the spectacular view of Table Mountain as backdrop. After the cycads, we go see the abundant collection of fynbos (fine bush) plants: restios, ericas and the astonishingly sculptural and emblematic proteas in a variety of reds, pinks and whites...

How did I get here so quickly? Um. Fibbing. "The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the British Museum have brought a small corner of South Africa to the heart of London." The collection looked beautiful, but odd. I took some photos a couple of weeks ago, and drew the proteas from them. Follow the link for

some thoughts on drawing and lying...

Ingredients for lunch

Pencil, water soluble pencil crayon and watercolour in Windsor and Newton sketchbook.

This paper is not meant to buckle with watercolour!

Shopping

Brush markers and watercolours in Windsor and Newton sketchbook.

Beautiful Saturday morning - ie gorgeous light and weather not too hot. The countryside on the drive into town was breathtakingly lovely, and everything in town seemed mild and gentle: welcome to Midsomer! Dog out of immediate danger and back home, so I went to look for tasty morsels to try coax her appetite back (not very successful so far). Saw several people with walking sticks... These sketches in different greys, not black, hence faded look.

Soldiers

Brush markers, pencil crayons and watercolour in Windsor and Newton sketchbook. And lipstick on tissue.

Very early and very quick. Tidying the bathroom cupboard, I lined up all these soldiers. There are only two of these that I actually use (she said defensively).

Lost and found, 2

Staedtler black contour liner and watercolour in big sketchbook.

Brush markers and pencil crayon in big sketchbook.

More stuff I leave lying about the house.

Variations on the same theme

Pencil and watercolour in big sketchbook.

Poss's stuff in the dining room.

Ink pen, watercolour and a touch of pencil in big sketchbook.

How does one represent the world, in all its three dimensional plenitude, on a two dimensional surface? When Picasso split a woman’s face in several parts and showed us each segment from a different point of view, he was addressing this question.  In the art of representation, this is a core problem, one that is always implicit in those artefacts that we call pictures. Read on.

Checklist

Another drawing from a couple of days ago.

Ink pen and watercolour in big sketchbook.