Sorry for the lack of posts, mostly due to end of school year busy-ness and the ease of using Facebook instead; apologies! So here are a few recent sketches, all exploring the fun you can have with the mother/daddy of all fude nibs, the Duke Confucius 551 ( here’s a great review by Parka). I’ll post more about this juicy, oddly heavy, slightly sprung, highly expressive pen sometime soon, but meanwhile here are: non-World Cup watching park-goers seeking refreshment, World Cup watchers in Southgate shopping centre (the match was on a huge screen to the right, I was on a first floor cafe balcony), the view up Brock Street from the dappled shade of the huge trees in the centre of the Circus, and a sunny Sunday afternoon in front of Bath Abbey (I like the way the slightly opaque gouache ‘knocks back’ the line work on the Abbey). More soon, honest…