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Before There Were Saturdays

24/3/2015

This one has lain dormant for several months. Sometimes it is incredibly hard to get back into it again after all the interruptions which occur generally, but having loosened up with fireside drawings I am now getting back into it. The preparatory sketch for this, Before there were Saturdays, was finished on the 17th of this month which helped a lot. That took some time to do, but it was worth it as I have a much clearer picture in my head of where I am going with the main drawing.

The Eclipse

20/3/2015

We spent the morning out in the garden for the eclipse. It was great! The eerie silence which accompanied it at its totality was weird, all the birds stopped singing and it was cold.

At Play

19/3/2015

Burning, scorching, dripping and drawing. Making a mess and playing. Sometimes it's great being an artist!

A Proper Log Pile

17/3/2015

Not mine.

Log Piles

16/3/2015

I can't believe I am building a log pile today.

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I work a LOT in sketchbooks and always have several on the go. My dad was an architect and naval draughtsman, and after he died in 2017 I found heaps of old templates while clearing out his study. Always having been an avid collector of shapes, at the beginning of this year I bought a WHSmith A5 diary to use as a sketchbook specifically for work based on them.

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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
If you would like to visit my Binky website, please click the picture above.

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Candle-light shadows. I set up little 'night theatres' in my bedroom. As darkness falls, I light strategically placed candles and watch the plays begin. A perfect activity for the darkest days of winter.

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