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...
by jenny.monds | Nov 12, 2021 | BLOGS
There’s something wonderful about faces. Old, young, whatever nationality they are. Especially when they are absorbed in something. This is Hakuya Noguchi, a fourth generation gold leaf artisan in Japan. And if anyone is in Salisbury tomorrow, Saturday 13th November,...
by jenny.monds | Oct 22, 2021 | BLOGS
Ah the wonders of zoom. One of the good things about this last couple of years has been discovering online courses. This week I attended an online day course on drawing with ink and coloured wash. This is a page from my sketchbook where we were asked...
by jenny.monds | Oct 16, 2021 | BLOGS
One of the things I missed during the lock-downs was being able to people watch. Yesterday I was able for the first time in ages to sit in a cafe, enjoy a drink, and get out my sketchbook. I like to try and catch people in just a few lines. I’m intrigued by different...
