Tag: sketch booking

  • What can we learn from drawing Sycamore seeds?

    We moved from The Forest, where I knew the trees and their varieties, to the beautiful Derwent valley. The noticeable change for me was in the varieties of trees. There are a lot of Sycamore. Members of the Acer/Maple family, they are everywhere. One book on local history referred to them as “the Derbyshire weed.”…

  • See my Cosmonaut Exhibition Sketchbook – London’s Science Museum

    Yesterday I went up to visit my Publishers in London but in the afternoon I visited the Cosmonaut Exhibition in the Science museum. It was wonderful to see the hardware that I’d only ever seen before on grainy newsreel footage. Sputnik 3 was probably my favourite. It must have had some influence on the design…