the power of practice

Here at home as lockdown stretches out we've felt the need to stretch our minds as well. My hoard of notebooks has never been put to so much use: three pages of journaling almost every day, notes for courses and tutorials, and so much drawing!

quarantine diary: sketches

It's day 30 since official UK lockdown, although we actually started isolating a week earlier on the 16th of March. Since then we've had time to settle, take a deep breath (a lot of deep breaths) and begin building a new routine.

shroom boom

The challenge with depicting mushrooms is capturing its fleshiness. 

They need to look the way the word mushroom sounds. 

Pencil, various pan watercolours. Lettering and borders,
Noodler's Lexington Grey in extra fine fountain pen.
Fabriano small artist's journal.

Mahala's art featured in her sketch art blog, Peregrinalia.