No name. Yet. Back to the Stonehenge paper and back to basics. Oh, we love dem pencils. Still shonking capture of progress through a phone camera....

Not much more to do now, so will reveal all soon.

However, more to the point, Mr Danny Smith Esq. will be hosting the next Art is Easy night just as soon as we've nailed down a date for it. I went to the first one and can vouch for the relaxed, no pressure attitude and environment people could draw in. We had complete beginners and creative pros sitting side by side throwing graphite around some paper and beers down their necks. What is Art is Easy? I can express it no better than in the carefully chosen words of Mr Smith himself:

"...We all show up at a place, I try and show everyone that drawing is a skill that can be taught. we drink, the better amongst us help the ones less able, we draw, we laugh, and I try not to stab anyone with my lovely sharp stabby stabby mechanical pencil."

Fortunately, I've invested in a mechanical pencil too, so I'll be on hand on the evening to make sure that Danny doesn't climb up the curtains or wee in the ornamental houseplants. 

If you're interested in drinking and drawing, or one or both, whether you're an expert or a complete novice, please let us know if you can make it by indicating your availability here. We already have some lovely rum sorts who have expressed an interest, so don't be shy. You have until next Friday to throw your name into the arena before we confirm a date. I thank you....

I worked on it, I looked at, I put it down. Repeat. I looked at it. And again. And again. I worked on it... and so on!

 A Strange Magic, 2010

Available on Etsy as a limited edition of 5.

It's been a hectic, but brilliant, few weeks. Just need to crank up the pencil action a bit more and knock procrastination for six!

This afternoon's offering is Sojourn. Visits may be brief, but beautiful.

Sojourn, 2010

I've continued to work with the accidental technique I discovered when producing my prints for the Created in Birmingham shop. To cut a long story short, I'd intended the prints to be a straight forward print onto photo paper and that was it. Unfortunately, an incident with a shard of metal and my finger inadvertantly saw the photo paper prints ruined.... at the point where I'd run out of paper. So, I pulled out some Stonehenge paper and saw whether the prints would work on it. They did. Adding final white highlighting by hand and some darkest darks where necessary produced something I was really pleased with. So I've stuck with it......

Coralie, 2010

There are a couple of new pieces in my Portfolio if you fancy a peak.