Take a punt
A calm moment during a worryingly high energy punting trip in Oxford!
A steadier line on dry land: builders sprucing up the pavements at the Radcliffe Camera.
Broadstairs and Beyond
You can’t put a fruit pastel in your mouth without chewing it and I can’t walk past a lighthouse with sketching it.
This is North Foreland Lighthouse in Kent.
Early evening on Broadstairs Beach. Beautiful.
Friday feeling
The i360 has landed. 
The Smoke House is being bombarded.
It must be Friday evening in Brighton and Hove.
Ireland’s Pirate Queen
Clare Island is home of the pirate queen Grace O’Malley (Granuaile). 
The ferry to the Island has a super quick turn around – 30 seconds and the car has disembarked via crane!
Grace’s 16th Century castle looms over the harbour.
It’s a gorgeous walk to the lighthouse at the North of the Island.
Sadly, the lighthouse is gated off, so I have to peer over the wall. 
Grace is buried in the Abbey graveyard on the south of the Island. There is an eerie mist hanging on the hill behind. I can hear a crying child… but there is no one there. 
Exhausted, I manage one final quick sketch before the ferry arrives.
I’ll dream of plunder and sketching tonight!
Just me and the birds
Westport
The main Square in Westport is an Octagon. When faced with a riddle you can’t solve, drink strong coffee and sketch!
Vintage amusement
Dreamland in Margate is considered to be the oldest amusement park in the UK.
Sketching, beer and chips. What more could you need?
Kent meets Nevada
The flamingo. Las Vegas, or Margate?
Margate or Vegas?
Portraiture course: week 5
You know it’s going to go well when you turn up half an hour early for your course and it takes you 10 minutes to realise.
Off to an impressive start, I proceeded to spill an entire jar of thinners and an entire jar of coffee all over the floor.
As well as all that, I also managed to finish portrait of Finlay, so it all worked out in the end.
Going to avoid jars for the rest of the day though!
Sweaty and confused in Saigon
This time last year I was stumbling jetlagged and bleary-eyed around the frantic streets of Ho Chi Minh city.
Whilst I love to walk in a city, I’ll never forget the death-defying road crossings through motorbike stampedes to get from the hotel near Tao Dan Park to the highest view point in town, the Bitexco Financial Tower.
Street cleaners in Tao Dan Park
Thankfully no motorbikes in Tao Dan Park!
I opted for the most expensive coffee in town so that I could sketch that great view of the Saigon River through the lazy afternoon smog.
How much is that coffee in the window?
I go misty over you
The Bitexco Tower from the Harmony Hotel breakfast room
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