by jenny.monds | Jan 20, 2022 | BLOGS
Looking at the houseplants today. This one is Mother-in-law’s Tongue. Not a very pretty name for a rather attractive plant. It’s also known as ‘snake plant’, but I’m not sure that’s much better. Houseplants bring a bit of nature indoors, give us something to care for,...
by jenny.monds | Jan 7, 2022 | BLOGS
Happy New Year, all! Looking no further than the kitchen for today’s Small Delight, and three leeks. I spent five minutes just looking at these before I began to draw. Really looking at something is an interesting thing to do. Even if you don’t draw, spending...
by jenny.monds | Dec 23, 2021 | BLOGS
Time to wish you all a Happy Christmas, and thank you for accompanying me with my drawings through 2021. This is the Virgin Mary as Stella Maris, ‘Star of the Sea’. The figure is based on a statue on the Brittany coast, which is sited on the Pointe de Kerpenhir,...
by jenny.monds | Dec 16, 2021 | BLOGS
European Robin Today’s small delight is the Robin. These tuneful birds are so lovely to have in the garden, especially in the winter when we crave colour. Our robin was finding it difficult to perch on the bird feeders hanging in the trees, so we fixed one to...
by jenny.monds | Nov 27, 2021 | BLOGS
A dear friend brought me a persimmon fruit earlier this week. I couldn’t eat it before I’d drawn it, but it was surprisingly difficult to get it right! According to Wikipedia, it’s actually a berry. Elsewhere I read of the many health benefits claimed for the...
by jenny.monds | Nov 16, 2021 | BLOGS
A friend kindly sent me some money to buy flowers. The local florist offered me three amaryllis heads, and what pleasure I am getting from them. I had thought of amaryllis as being uniform pillar box red, but these are a riot of dots and stripes, deep pink-almost-red...
