Shirking my 'duties'

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I wish I could say I'd been creating some art every day as intended. But I haven't. And I wish I'd kept this more up-to-date, which I haven't. It's not that I haven't been sketching, because I have, just maybe not every day. Some sketches really weren't worth airing and these others that I was happy with seem to have built up as a backlog because I hadn't got around to posting here much. Catch 22 then!

So for now, I shall feed in some of the better sketches from the last month or two a little at a time to keep this rolling forward a bit more frequently, so here goes...

This pen sketch is from the front of our house after I had finished removing the top of one of our conifers, to open up our sea view more.



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