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Pigeon, acrylic on paper, roughly 5" by 7"

Ink on paper.

Thinking of making this into a wall paper, have been drawing lots of trees as so many near me have been getting cut down lately.

My usual warm up - doodles on more or less random blobs of paint. Watercolour on paper, A3

A wee sketch of a feather I found, painted with watercolours on Stillman & Birn Zeta paper.

The big bad wolf... hear me roar!

On the western flood plains of the River Curdle sits the small town of Plunk.

8x12 acrylic and ink on wood with wooden frame.

I rarely draw on paper, and mostly it's all sorts of little people or my characters in a silly style.

Thérond, pen on paper

Acrylic on paper

Stylized Rio

Meadhbh standing in front of a green wall. Simplified her hair and the leaves in the background a bit. Charcoal and pastel pencils on 9” x 12” Strathmore archival sketchbook paper, scanned into Photoshop. Model: Meadhbh

ink on paper, abstract art, automatism

Once again playing with shapes, colours, marks, and loads of squiggly, smudgy ink lines. No pressure. Just trying to get back into splashing around with paint and seeing what emerges.

Practice for my next project. This is my first time experimenting with white charcoal and white gel pen on black paper. Let me know what you think!

"To tempt someone into doing something or going somewhere, to draw in." 16x20 in, white charcoal and pastel on black paper.

Illustrated with Ink and Ink-Pens on Paper. Urh.-Nr:1811955 Copyright

(HB pencil on 50mm x 80mm paper) A simple, yet strange, little character for these Guardian Spirit cards I've done.

I've wandered Brechfa forest in Carmarthenshire on several occasions, but have only seen a very small part of what this huge forest has to offer. I'm hoping that once travel restrictions are lifted, I can get back out there and explore more. Pen on sketchbook paper (6"x8")

"Chameleon, you're free again, my child." I think using song lyrics may be slightly cheating...but it is quoted text... I feel like I haven't made a 'purposeful' piece in a bit, so this drawing felt even better to make. There have been multiple ups and downs lately. Frustration, self-hate, and anxiety can take many forms, and eventually I lose sight of what they started as. I heard this song for the first time a few months ago and it's really been stuck in my head recently for various reasons. I don't know, sometimes music provides an escape that even art can't.

My last finished painting of 2020. A morning in the woodlands of Ystradfawr Nature Reserve near my home. This is the final result of one of my colour sketches - Spring on the Line. It sold to lady in a care home who's lost her mobility. I hope it gives her a bit of the great outdoors when she's sitting in her room.

14x17" ink, watercolor and spraypaint on paper

A drawing that turned out better than I expected. Two hour seated pose. Pencil, Charcoal Pencil, Pastel Pencils on some weird pad of paper I found in my closet.

Most evenings, I watch a couple of news programs streaming on my computer. During that time, I also make it a point to draw a person (usually from an on-line reference photo) with a No.2 yellow pencil (generally Ticonderoga) on whatever paper is handy on my desk. It's good practice and keeps my hands busy. These are some "News Doodles" done this past week.

Graphite and dry aquarelle pencil on watercolour paper, 22 x 34 cm

Ink and crayons on paper

Weird shapey lady that wants to plant a forest.

Artwork on "the other side" - playing with the bleed-through from the watercolor and intuitiviely allowing the shapes to arise. Created using watercolor, coffee, ink, graphic pens and unipen