20/08/2014

A silhouette of my daughter running across a shingle beach on holiday, nearing sunset (tea stain overlaid with leftover paint applied with fingers and carbon pencil, A3)

12/08/2014

A view across the lake in my local park (biro on A6)

02/08/2014

Zooming in on a corner of my dining room (biro on A6)

12/07/2014

A rapid line drawing of my living room from a sitting position, on torn cream-coloured pastel paper – cream being the predominant colour of the room. Oil pastels, carbon pencil and pastel pencils (A3)

11/07/2014

One of many pieces of pencil sharpenings that are scattered around my work area (red biro, A6)

04/07/2014

Once again, using up leftover paint from my palette; applied with a painting knife making random gestural marks, then overlaid with oil pastels to suggest a tropical beach theme (A3)

30/06/2014

A view from the top of the stairs of The National Gallery, London (oil pastel on double-page A3 spread).

24/05/2014

A very spontaneous piece, using up the leftover paint on my palette after working on an exercise. Mainly blue, ochre and yellow, I smudged it onto the page with my fingertips and a large flat brush, before drawing on top of it while still damp with oil pastels. The image depicts windswept trees; it was the first thing to come to mind when looking at the random paint design! (Acrylic and oil pastel on A4)

24/06/2014

My baby son eating a biscuit; he caught me drawing and started to fidget! Need to practice drawing more rapidly and not getting too caught up on detail (red biro on A6)

06/06/2014

Quick sketch of my children’s plastic toy leopard; it was peeking out of the toy box, just asking to be sketched (biro on A6).