• It was so sad, yesterday, watching the news come in during the day. I thought it couldn’t be really that bad, could it? So it was quite a hock when the announcement of the Queen’s death came.

    I’ve been in the crowd a few times, most memorably representing the Society of Authors at a Buckingham Palace Garden Party. Each time I saw her, it was as if the clouds rolled away and the sunshine came out to illuminate her above everything else. It happened yesterday at Windsor and Buckingham Palace, both enwreathed in rainbows at the time of her death.

    I’ve noticed quite an up swing in views of my How to draw Queen Elizabeth videos, so, if you want to draw her, for what ever reason, here again is the video I made for the Platinum Jubilee, such a happy occasion that seems only a moment ago.

  • Learn to draw a motorcycle Helmet real easy with this easy to follow, spoken tutorial video. Find all the hundred’s of DrawStuffRealEasy drawing videos on one page by clicking here.

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  • During the recent heat wave our cat hardly spoke to us. He moped around the garden, hiding in the flowerbeds. In the evenings, he didn’t come in for his daily five minutes sitting on my lap. The day the weather broke he ran away from me, tearing over the garden fence, as if I was an ogre.

    The next day it was cooler, and he nagged me all day, climbing onto my lap and sleeping on the floor by the studio door.

    What was that all about?

    I tried to take a selfie with him, to put on instagram, because that’s what you do, right? But the way I held him to face the camera looked like I was strangling him and I looked like a total muppet! Then I thought, “why not draw it instead, and use my alter ego, Benni, to play myself?”

    I can never get a selfie to look the way I want it to, so maybe I have stumbled across the answer. Turn the moment into a story!