Some wonderful pictures this week. Two are of animals and you can really get a sense of their energy and character; the rabbits being drawn whilst looking through binoculars - who else has tried this? It’s tricky at first , but you soon get used to it, and it’s really fun. A fantastic abstract which has a lovely sense of texture and touch’ - I can almost imagine myself drawing with that chalk. A simply wonderful chair, perfect for sitting and resting in… and drawing in maybe! A beloved lampshade, how often do we appreciate our lampshades?! And a very tall foxglove that had to be drawn over two pages!
‘You make the world beautiful and warm and kind. I just wanted to say thank you for that before it's too late.’ Louis Wain from ‘The Electrical Life of Louise Wain’ (2021)
Is there anything transient in your life that you might want to appreciate and to say ‘thank you’ to by giving it the honour of being drawn? (It’s fun to think of the things in our life getting all excited about being drawn, about having their ‘likeness’, their ‘portrait’ taken, immortalised on paper forever, loved forever, such as what we are doing here!).
