• Here’s a new video on how to draw an eye. I’ve done this with crayon this time and it is all from memory. I will do another one late from a photograph with pencil and take more time analysing it.


  • I went for a lovely walk in the Forest with my daughter today. We had just finished filling our containers with about 3 lbs of blackberries when my daughter spotted, with her keen hunter’s ear, three Stags, really quite close by. The biggest stood it’s ground and watched us as I slowly got my phone out, switched it on, found the camera app, turned that on and waited for it to warm up and then zoomed in and finally took this picture. Then it decided it had had enough and ran off with the others. It was very dark compared to the one of the others, which was a normal fawn/red deer colour. Very exciting to be so close.


  • Today is international left-hander’s day, so I thought I would have a go at drawing my left hand with my left hand – not easy if you are right handed. Have a go yourself, but don’t throw the pencil across the room if you get frustrated!