This evenings sketch was done in the dark recess of a bar at the launch gig for Mystery Train's CD 'LET IT ROLL'
Excelent evening, thanks to you all.

Punting down the Colarado

Inspired by an email from Linda in Arizona, I have sketched myself punting the Grand Canyon Rapids. I am thinking maybe I should wear a Life Jacket.

The picture is in fact a combination of sketch and photo - just in case you were wondering.

Moored up near Granchester

I decided to combine my love of the river, bit of keep fit, catch up with some letter writing and do some painting all in one trip today.

I didn't take my phone nor a watch, and was surprised to discover I had spent almost 5 hours afloat, or sat on the bank sketching out my art work.

The original was in fact twice the size of previous postcards, this one A5. I think it will have to be posted in an envelope rather than as a postcard as all my others have been.

Now, in Lloyd Grossman style voice; "Now to whom shall I send a postcard like this?"
So if you are checking out this blog because you know me, maybe you should be watching your letterbox too.

Barges & Bouthouse

Still wanting to make the most of the outdoors in my lunch hour I cycled down to the Comon and sat by the river to eat lunch, sandwhiches, cake and a bottle of squash.
Then of course, out came the Postcard Pad.
The barge the drawing is based on was moored on my side of the bank, but I thought it would better if it was chugging upstream.

Welsh Bridge

Growing up we spent many holidays in a valley in Wales. I have revisited in the last 10 years, but memories are engrained from my childhood. I was trying to draw the bridge over the stream running down the side of the house. I showed the sketch to my brother in Holland, (Skype is good for that kind of thing), he recognised it... after a while! I get the feeling I reshaped the valley.

Picnic Postcard Take Two

I actually post most of my handsketched postcards within a day or two. I decided I wanted to send the same scene to friends in Japan, so had a go at rawing the same scene. This time I did not waterwash the crayon, I cannot quite decide which I prefer.

Autumnal Picnic

Sad, but true.
Looking outside at the sky now, and noticing the general drop in temperature, the chance to enjoy countryside picnics this year are fast dissappearing.
If you get the chance, pack up that hamper, load it onto your bicycle and pedal out into the countryside.
The added bonus at the moment there are plany of fruit laden bushes to supply you with pudding for free. When you look at the £2 punnet of blackberries in the supermarket they taste so much better free straight off the bush!

Experimenting with Windmills

I'm not going out today, so I decided to draw my own postcards, two being sent to USA and one to Canada.
East Anglia is very flat, so used to have many working windmills, either for grinding flour, oats and other foodstuffs, or for pumping water into irrigation or out of drainage ditches.
Sadly a lot of these are now in dissrepair, but more recently a few have been restored as working mills, some charging a small fee to look around them.