This month's topic on Making a Mark is flowers in art. There are some wonderful links in this post; anyone with even the slightest int...

When the rain drove me inside yesterday, I did a quick sketch of this chandelier inside the spookily now almost deserted old Radcliffe Infir...

Tonight I had the chance to spend about half an hour making a sketch of the fountain at the front of the old Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford....

Time for a return to graphite. I like to use lots of different media -- watercolour, pen and ink, coloured pencil -- but I still find it ha...

Here's another version of the girl that I posted a while back, this time with added pigeons! The vague shapes on the upper right were s...

Yesterday I attended a workshop in botanical illustration at the Harcourt Arboretum (part of Oxford University's Botanical Garden) run b...

Yes, it's another rose! I think tomorrow I'll have to try something different. Like a yellow rose, perhaps. :) Again, this is on ...

It's hard to resist painting roses at the moment, as thy are everywhere! So, here's another version. This style is largely inspire...

I've not been able to post much so far this month, thanks to pressure of real life (boo!). But I hope to put that right with a flurry o...

I had the chance to go out and draw for a hour or so this evening as the sun was going down, and what better way to spend the time than draw...

I'm planning a painting of a young girl feeding pigeons. This is a quick study of the girl. I don't have a lot of time to do much ...

Summer has returned to Oxford this weekend, thank goodness. And with all the rain, we've been having, when the sun comes out everything...

EDM challenge 8 was to draw a watch. I've got a few watches; this one I bought on my recent trip to Switzerland. It didn't seem ri...

I've decided to do a watercolour based on the graphite portrait of Liz that I've been showing here. This is a new challenge for me;...

I think I might declare this finished. At any rate, I'm going to to leave it for a few days and then come back to it. It didn't tu...

Here's another update of my portrait of Liz. Coming along quite nicely, I think. Slow progress, but I've no reason to hurry over t...

Here's another update. At one point today I almost gave up and started again on different paper as I'm having so much trouble with t...

I've not had much drawing time this week, so I haven't made much progress on this drawing, but I thought I'd post what I've ...

Here are a couple of torches. I'm amazed I could find two; normally torches are one of those things that I can never find when I want o...

I'm very upset because Liverpool were cruelly robbed of victory in the Champions League Final by AC Milan. (I'm talking about footb...