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A bit more time-lapse fun this evening, with a quick indigo-blue study of a bee-eater with a moth, from a photo I took in Bulgaria back in '18, before the world went nuts. Oh how wonderful it is to be able to escape into a world of paper and pencils&
I made my first time-lapse! 30 minute sketch in 30 seconds. I'm a serial paper-mover (I swear half my drawings are done upside down🙃) so it was a struggle to keep it still, but overall enjoyed it so will make a few more. I photographed lots of ful
Ah, summer 🌞 The time of year when as much as I try and concentrate on drawing, my head is full of butterflies and misty dawn adventures with the camera. Here is a right stonking pair of marbled whites I caught napping one morning. Right, I really
Spent the eve of my 41st trip around the sun on a tranquil Dorset heathland - silver studded blues flitting at my feet, Dartford warblers skulking in the gorse, and then as the light slowly drained from the sky the beautiful sound and sight of nightj
A preparatory study for a drawing for the upcoming @artworkforaves fundraiser. I highly recommend heading over to their Instagram to see the beautiful artwork they're featuring this year. The drawing will probably feature two parrots, so this is jus
This great horned owl sketch is part of a big animal interpretation project I'm currently working on. There's lots of animals to do, and not much time to do them in, so the drawings have to be done pretty quickly in a few hours. Drawing them digita
An Arctic tern, photographed against the setting sun one night in Orkney a couple of weeks ago. I loved how it simply did not get dark up there, and I spent a few happy, sun-drenched evenings sitting and watching this tern colony. Supremely gracefu
Recently back from a hugely energising trip to Orkneyy, which is chock-full of cool wildlife. I've come away with months worth of inspiring material for drawing and I can't wait to get started on paper, but for now here's a sea parrot photographed at
Been chipping away at this bateleur eagle sketchbook study in my spare time this week… #birdartist #birdartwork #birdart #birddrawing #birdlovers #birdofprey #bateleureagle #eagle #falconry #wildlifeart #wildlifeartist #charcoalart #charcoald