Pen drawing of a view looking across narrow terraced fields. Separated by low walls, the fields are either bright green and yellow with fresh spring vegetation or dark grey volcanic soils. A small white building stands amongst the fields.

Pen drawing of a view looking across narrow terraced fields. Separated by low walls, the fields are either bright green and yellow with fresh spring vegetation or the dark grey of the bare volcanic soils. A small white building stands amongst the fields. In this version the flap at the bottom of the drawing is folded up to reveal a foreground of rocks and plants.

View across terraced fields near Guinate, Lanzarote. Two versions, one with the edge of the high path, one without. 1

Pen drawing of a salt production site. Showing a grid like arrangement of water filled lagoons at different stages of evaporation.

Photo across a salt works showing mounds and pyramids of salt in small compartments built from dark larva.

A fun bit of doodling, looks like the map of a city on a bay, actually salt works at La Hoya, Lanzarote. Largely drawn from aerial imagery cos my own photos were too oblique.

Looking beautiful already 🙂 Good luck with your target. I managed 0 last year 😂.

Brightly coloured pen sketch of three blue-green succulents with yellow buds along their ridges against a dark grey background.

Brightly coloured pen sketch of a succulent with a tree-like form with a grey green trunk and branches topped with fleshy leaf rosettes. Set against the remains of low terrace walls.

Brightly coloured pen sketch of a prickly pear. With large blue-green lobes dotted with cluster of large spikes and topped with the pink fruits.

A few holiday drawings - flora of Lanzarote. Using chunky posca pens.

White farm buildings against black soil hillside that is marked with dimples where where vines will grow.

View along a black sand beach with white crashing waves.

Black lizard with turquoise flashes on dark lava rock.

16 yr old goth me would have loved Lanzarote. Now me is quite keen too!

A close up of a label printed on a wool weave fabric. The fabric is a dark blue check. The label says it was made by Herbert Roberts Ltd in Keighley, and has the 'Keirobe' finish.

Determined to make a garment from this fab vintage fabric, but it needs a wash - wish me luck!

A flock of starlings against a cloudless sky at dusk. This photo captures a starling murmuration when the birds have formed a large shape like a spoon. In some areas the starlings are so close they form a black mass, in others they are more thinly spaced.

Just getting back into posting after a bit of a break. Happy New Year!

There's a cracking account of a meteor landing near Holkham in 1741. Pub in Royal Society Phil Trans in 1744. I really hoped to see evidence of the impact on lidar, but sadly not.

Part of the same painting, showing workers standing on a jetty. The painter has added highlights on their heads and shoulders from the moonlight.

Photo of a painting in a gallery. A moonlit scene of Whitby harbour. The sky is an unusual bluey green colour. The abbey is silhoutted in the background. An expanse of water reflects the moonlight in the middle ground. The water is framed by the rigging of ships. The painting has a broad gilt surround and picture frame.

I saw 'Whitby' in the Ferens a few weeks ago, same amazing luminosity. Every tiny detail is exquisite, like the moonlight on the fishermen.

Pen sketch of two wooden figures stood on a simple wooden boat, viewed side on. Black outlines with a light brown wash. The head, body and legs are made from a single, simply carved piece of wood. The arms and "bits" are made of curved sticks and slot into holes in the torso. 3 arms are missing but bith "bits" are present. The eyes are small quartz pebbles stuck into deep sockets.

Pen sketch of two wooden figures stood on a simple wooden boat, viewed head on. Black outlines with a light brown wash. The head, body and legs are made from a single, simply carved piece of wood. The arms and "bits" are made of curved sticks and slot into holes in the torso. 3 arms are missing but both "bits" are present. The eyes are small quartz pebbles stuck into deep sockets.

Posting these again to see if omitting the trigger word in the alt text helps🫢. Two of the Roos Carr figures. On display at Hull and East Riding Museum.

Oops, nothing too rude, honest!

Pen sketch of two wooden figures stood on a simple wooden boat, viewed side on. Black outlines with a light brown wash. The head, body and legs are made from a single, simply carved piece of wood. The arm and penis are made of curved sticks and slot into holes in the torso. 3 arms are missing but both penises are present. The eyes are small quartz pebbles stuck into deep sockets.

Pen sketch of two wooden figures stood on a simple wooden boat, viewed head on. Black outlines with a light brown wash. The head, body and legs are made from a single, simply carved piece of wood. The arm and penis are made of curved sticks and slot into holes in the torso. 3 arms are missing but both penises are present. The eyes are small quartz pebbles stuck into deep sockets.

Sketches of a couple of the Roos Carr figures, on display at Hull and East Riding Museum.

Pen drawing with a bold green and blue background. Food items are left white with a loose black outline and detail. They are slices of pizza, ravioli pasta, a takeaway coffee cup, a cinnamon bum and a tin of liquorish sweets.

Unfortunately I did get to try much Norsk mat during my short visit, except for cinnamon buns! So here's my not Norsk Mat version

A pen drawing copy of a 1960s or 70s book jacket. Shows serving dishes, plates and tankards on a table. The background is bright red and yellow. The vessels are left white with loose black outlines and details.

I saw an old cookbook in a Trondheim bookshop and loved the jacket design but the shop was closed so I drew my own version.

Flint is such a beautiful building material. There must be mountains of debitage somewhere!

Photo of a mosaic mounted on a wall on a museum gallery. Two rows showing a chariot race with animated horses rearing a galloping. A missing section of the mosaic has been painted in.

Large mosaic on a curved wall depicting three ships on waves in shades of green.

Two mosaics, one from a Roman villa, the other from a 1960s supermarket. Hull and East Riding Museum and the old Coop, Hull.

These are lovely 🙂

Mahogany display cabinet containing rows of more than 100 Bronze Age beakers and urns, all a dull reddish-brown in colour. Above the cabinet is a sign reading 'Mortimer Museum'.

Ultimate granny cabinet at the Hull and East Riding Museum.

Colour pen sketch of an old timber house next a newer yellow house. The timber is dark, gnarly and knotted. The window frames are pale green. And there is long grass growing on the roof.

Timber house with turf roofs on the slag road, Røros.

Pen sketch of a white church tower with green copper dome and black details above the roofs of industrial buildings all seen between the gaps in a wooden fence

Røros church and the roofs of the copper works.

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Pen drawing showing the corner of a two storey yellow building with pan tile roof. It shows a large 3-D rabbit fashioned out of scrap plastic and metal and applied to the walls. Its ears reach the roof, it has huge bulbous eyes and long spikey whiskers.

Last of the Porto drawings, loved this huge scrap bunny down amongst the port cellars

Thanks Becca 🙂

Photo of a lid on a spade near the bottom of the compost bin.

Well that solves the mystery of the missing compost crock lid.

Pen sketch, black outlines on grey paper, with some buildings highlighted in white, yellow and red.

Another Porto view, towards the Mercado Ferreira Borges.

Pen sketch of pantile rooftops over whitewashed buildings.

Across the rooftops of the Port quarter, Porto

Pen sketch of lines of dune defences. Rows of fences made of wood and wire undulating with the contours of the sand.

Sketch of dune defences, i liked how they overlap as they recede into the distance.

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Drawing in pen. Looking at the corner of an elaborate shop front. Carved wood and plaster painted bright green against pink walls.

And a straight on version. I find perspective very tricky!