Oh dear, nearly two years since my last post here, and it was getting fairly infrequent before then; apologies to anyone who is still there/here!

I’ve kept up the daily drawing from life (thirteen years now!), and am still regularly sketching around town etc, but just got out of the blogging habit, posting on FaceBook and occasionally on Instagram instead.

My style’s much the same; default subjects are people (selfies or strangers). But I’m mostly using neutral coloured pencil instead of ink. The best I’ve found are Luminance pencils, smudgeable for tone when you want, but much more stable than graphite and heavily pigmented. I’ll do a proper update on sketching kit sometime soon, it’s usually the main draw to this site.

Last year I held my first exhibition/sale of works in a pop-up shop in Bath. It was lovely to chat with visitors, find out what caught their eye, what was saleable, and interesting having to put a price on a sketch! I’d moved to doing larger sketches on loose pieces of paper about five years ago, so had accumulated hundreds of individual works; here are some of the many sketches I had to sort through…

“As if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared!” (Fez next time)

Here are some sketches from the last two years, and I’ll do my best to get back into the blogging habit this summer!