Well, I am having router problems, so not so easy to fiddle around how to post here. Much easier to do at home. Have been exploring Painter further, and seeing what I can make of a 1 hour'w work based aroung a photo I took in Venice. 'Will see if I can post it

The dragonfly picture was made using rotring pen and coloured inks to use as an avatar in 2005. I posted it here because i like it, and I needed animage to practise porting pictures with.

Here is something more recent: done as a 1 hour challenge using Painter - 2B virtual pencil and digital watercolour.

dragonfly 1

26th May 2006

I am starting this blog as a way to have an on-line sketchbook for the many diverse ideas about how I want to progress my work