Good morning everybody and now we are back home properly and getting on with normal stuff. The trees project is taking a slight twist at the moment and I am trying to think along the lines of traditional still life. Seeing texture, gettin in fairly close up, sharp details, that sort of thing. So to make me think a little more, I have changed my pen to a Muji pen (a Japaneses company) and gone in very close up. the image is A3 size, that is large for an ink, so the work was challenging. The above is an old beech tree with some ivy growing nears its base. I plan to do another similar drawing, so that they are a pair.

Our walks at the moment are fantastic, the vegetation is about as thick as it will get and with all the rain we have had this year, this thickness of the foliage is incredible.