and it's a banger

small hours big time earlier - a dirty grin moon with Venus below trying to get a closer view with binoculars - wobbly

19/4/26 - nocturn

small hours big time looking up - night flight to mid western USA other lines - washing / meteor / telegraph and the sound of someone walking up the lane unsteady over loose gravels

18/4/26 - nocturn

Lovely stuff

Ten years ! Blimey - worth a cake I reckon - hope all is well boss x

small hours big time patches of stars between obstructions and weather a square of Jupiter, an oblong with Bootes etc moving night shapes on paper little compositions of a larger geography

17/4/26 - nocturn

An inaccurate Monet - mind you, plenty of big figures with beards knocking around in those days - could even be W.G. Grace

small hours big time three drawings of early Lyrids seen from Lincolnshire back road interrupted by sketch of Claude Monet circa 1900 studio / beard /ciggy / massive ambient paints

16/4/26 - nocturn

Same bridge, same woodlice - I changed my walk to work route but still cross the same bridge with the dog most mornings - the woodlice remain

crossing the river with dog five thirty - red sky - green banks - heron five thirty five - old bridge - orange sky reflections / shadows - patient dog - heron five forty - sky yellow - fresh, not unpleasant woodlice on concrete - heron gone - onwards

16/4/26

small hours big time gin clear after squalls and starry as fuck keep an eye out for early Lyrids and look ahead to eventual stellar collapse

15/4/26 - nocturn

Cheers Bob - just been on the Lemsip for a few days while being at action capacity with all the other stuff - I'm back on solids and ready to rumble!

been chasing Calpol for a couple of days - disrupts the drawing regime - got told off by Claude Monet in a fever dream

Cheers Rebecca - limbering up after a few days lurgy

back gardens - flat grey sky green bits very green - a crude drawing meanwhile - a cut out photograph of Claude Monet with a white scribble on orange - make pictures in black below now - whole bunch of jackdaws over the gardens old fences - house ends - brightening up

15/4/26

small hours big time house plants at night the kitchen window sill wood / glass / dark etc then Jupiter!

11/4/26 - nocturn

Timber blocks stacked high with flints on top in the garden of the artist Green grass, shadows, peripheral junk wood came from an old windmill I'm off to make sculptures

Meanwhile - got some new blocks of wood to play with - good

small hours big time following a conversation on imaginary planets Palomar - a distant cousin to Jupiter Shackleton IV - very cold, very far, diamond winds and Bucephalus - no longer habitable

9/4/26 - nocturn

big tree fell over sideways trunk fist of roots / broken limbs smashed up canopy kiddo scrabbles up to survey the devastation

9/4/26

small hours big time box of flints on the table round flints, thick flints, holed flints pale flints, slender flints, worked flints whale flints, moon flints, rude flints - flints

8/4/26 - nocturn

small hours big time an orbit of the moon Space is the Place the silent stream of Orion's thruster Space is the Place - Space is the Place

7/4/26 - nocturn

It's back in style Bob

morning walk half five on the wooded track bit of red through the trees some yellow ahead / the green is back hawthorn is on / sky going blue bird song escalates

7/4/26

small hours big time bed sheet on the washing line a slight breeze back and forth in the light from the kitchen

6/4/26 - nocturn

A roof top over the fence Pete is shouting at his roof Storm Dave is with us

Pete is out there now, shouting at his roof

small hours big time fast sky - named storm the arse end of Dave, passing Pete over the fence is shouting at his roof but this is not unusual

4/4/26 - nocturn

Thanks Carol Ann - been a bit busy on the home front for domestic drawings lately - nice to have a sliver of time today !

Cheers! A record of part of it - the rest of the day is mostly wrangling my assorted sons and dog, cooking nice things and gently approaching beer time

It's a big book full of them ! Can't beat a second hand art book - lots of nice shapes to consider

bought a book - £2 pottery in britain today - 1967 modernist jugs ritual cups - black and white pics - good lay on sofa in green kitchen with boots off looking at book until next action

4/4/26