December sunrise

13 mph south westerly

typed on my Good Companion 5

6 am

Practice just to practice

Herring gulls, a composite sketch made over a few days from observation and memory. Window gazing and walks on the windy beach. They’re a bit of a pest sometimes but I’m fond of these birds

Keeping up the habit

I made a new sketchbook for my watercolour skies and covered it in leftover leather scraps.

Book number three under way today. The Imperial Good Companion 5 makes a nice stand for a photo too.

Summer storm approaching

hyphenated sky

July sky

I’ve had the same set of watercolours in a Windsor and Newton black enamel tin since I was a first year art student at Falmouth. Over the years the pans of colours have been renewed but it’s one of those little constants I return to that makes me feel secure. I started doing quick sketches in watercolour of lockdown skies in March. I didn’t think I would need to make another sketchbook to contain them all. Yesterday it was an even pale grey all day so I didn’t bother painting it. Today it looks more interesting so I may well do several. There are no rules other than to be guided by the wind.

North north easterly

ond ic reotugu sæt

revisiting wulf and eadwacer.

wulf is on one island, i on another…