Not quite managed to do anything postable every day, but I'm not doing too badly! This one I did as part of the Weekly Drawing Thread o...

Four days in to the New Year, and I'm keeping to my resolutions quite well so far, even if I'm not posting every day. I'm watch...

It's the time for making resolutions again, and this year I am yet again planning to draw and paint more regularly! It's not going ...

This week we were painting trees. I managed to do four studies in a couple of hours; here is one of them. It was a fun evening!

I've started watercolour classes again. Here is a recent effort. The idea was to experiment with wet-on-wet techniques. Some work bet...

For anyone living or visiting the UK, this site is great for listing what's showing in art galleries and museums. I'm very ke...

Here is a quick sketch I did on a recent trip to the New Forest. It's pen and ink, washed over with water. I like the way the colours ...

Here is another watercolour, this time showing a well-known scene in Oxford: the tower of Magdalen College. It's a lovely spot, especia...

I've not posted anything for ages...I hope that's going to change, as there are at least a few weeks when I'm not expecting to b...

Here's the finished painting. Lots wrong with it, but my best yet, so I'm quite pleased. Fiddled too much with some parts of it, ...

I've started watercolour classes recently, and here is a beginning of an attempt to paint Eton College chapel. This watercolour malarky ...

I really like the drawings at InkFinger. The Blind Contour Friday is a great idea; here is a link to the latest one: InkFinger: Blind Cont...

I've not had much time for artistic endeavour over the last few days, but did do this study of bushes in pen and ink a couple of days ag...

Here is a drawing I've done of my daughter, Sarah. It's graphite (2B mechanical pencil to be exact) on cartridge paper. It was bas...

Flatford Mill Originally uploaded by mothsailor . This is my first attempt at a "proper" pen and ink drawing. It's a...

This is our cat, Emma. The photograph was taken just a few days before she died. Sadly, she contracted the FIP virus, and became very weak....

I've been trying to make myself do some regular sketching recently. Here are a couple of pencil sketches. OK, I admit it...I did them fr...

I've recently obtained some rapidograph pens, which I love. Here's what they are like: rotring international . My first attempt at ...

lighthouse wde Originally uploaded by mothsailor . Here is a sketch of Pigeon Point lighthouse, which I saw while I was visiting Californ...