Cut from the garden

Ink pen and marker in small Moleskine sketchbook. 

Versions of the same

My life has been so housebound lately that I think I could rename this blog "Versions of the same" or "Things I see around the house" or, why not, "Everyday life at home"!  Possum kept re-adjusting her position just a tiny little bit, but enough to make her pose never quite the same every time I looked up - and meant her body is a particularly silly long furry sausage here.

Brush markers in small Moleskine sketchbook. 

Bit of a bore

I know I'm a bit of a bore with this garden, but I find the changeover of blooms over the summer, first one  then another – and with each waxing and waning a different overall palette – quite overwhelmingly lovely. And no, I wasn't a clever planner: all happenstance, really.

Ink pen and brush markers in Moleskine sketchbook. 

Summer

Not exactly a drawing, but I couldn't bear that last image to be the first thing I saw when I came into my blog, so here is summer...

The pain of others

Marker pen in small Moleskine sketchbook.

Ink pen and brush markers in small Moleskine sketchbook.

My husband trying in vain to manage chronic migraine. It's hard to be a bystander of the pain of others, not knowing what to do. In the first spread, I used the pages in vertical orientation for an initial drawing, and then I changed my mind.

Rambling Albertine on her way out

Pencil and pencil crayon in Moleskine sketchbook

Marker pens and brush in Moleskine sketchbook. 

Our steps will always rhyme

Marker pens in Moleskine sketchbook. 

Another one

This one done today.

Marker pen in small Moleskine sketchbook.

Digger looks sad but he isn't. Possum looks happy and she is. 

Waiting room

Marker pen and a touch of brush marker in small Moleskine sketchbook.


Very quick sketch, but will that excuse the wonky perspective? No it won't. 

Cuddle (take 2)

Brush markers in Moleskine sketchbook, and pencil on the last page.


I was inspired by the mutual embrace the other day. Fátima scoops Possum up, and Possum just stays put, like a fur doll, very funny. Drew these from photos I took - you can see that, especially in the first spread. There's a quality of abstraction you get when drawing from photos that is usually absent (at least for me) when drawing from direct observation.