Yoshi

Yoshi

My good friend's bunny died in March. She was heartbroken because Yoshi was like one of the family. I did this charcoal sketch for her and she loved it, said it really captured him. I had to wing it a bit as I had nothing to erase any mistakes with but I think lady luck was smiling on me that afternoon and it turned out ok!

No camera? No problem!

I'm on holiday with most of my children & no dogs! We're by the sea, which I love but the mobile signal is so intermittent your phone goes flat much faster than normal because of the constant searching for a signal.

Thus it was that I saw a striking scene of a fishing boat out at sea that I was itching to photograph but couldn't because my phone was flat. After bemoaning to anyone within earshot, I had a brainwave! Who needs technology? I would sketch it. So I found an old cinema ticket and black biro and did just that. My son, who considers himself far too grown up for rockpooling like the others, added the sea, fish, shark and modern art.

All in all I'm happy with the result. The boat was captured and my son joined in on a non technological activity!

The Lovely Elvie

This lovely lady inspired me with her art tweets to pick up a pencil for the first time in about 25 years. It's only done with a school pencil on printing paper because that's all I had in the house at the time.