Good morning every one and what a beautiful morning it is. To avoid the heat of the day, Liz and myself went out early today and walked from Triggs Lock to Send and back along the canal.  Met lots of people enjoying  the morning and lots of happy dogs enjoying the countryside sniffs!

One super side of this weather is that it makes outside water colour painting a great deal easier, because the work drys quickly. Five minuet wait between washes and not as I have experienced, forty minuet waits for one wash to dry sufficiently to carry on working. One thing you need to watch is that your colour washes are strong enough, or you will get home and see that your painting is much fainter than what you had really wanted.

So Polsten Lacy again and again a cool walk in the deep woods. We have a favorite tree near the Italian bridge. So a picnic followed by a chill time in the cool shade and a quick water colour sketch. No careful, fastidious strokes; just throw it on, with gay abond. Sounds a bit crazy, but on a hot day water colours work like that.

But serious and deeply planned work is also going on at the same time. I have just completed the ink which is below. It is a pen and ink and took quite a while to produce.The central tree is a Yew, which is surrounded by Spruce trees. The location is Hanger woods just off the foot path from Newlands Corner. From a technique point of view, getting the lightness of the ground vegetation was a little tricky , but I think that it woks.

We have just been to church on line, today it was really good, well done St. Andrews. Later we are having a correct spacing supper in a friends garden, that should be lovely. Well that's about all for today See you soon.Duncan.