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Today, just before the light faded, I sat down for a break with a mug of milky chai (a suitably spicy drink for this time of year) and drew the bird feeder as a willow tit repeatedly visited it. A great tit showed up too. This is what I desperately need right now: more time to draw, preferably during daylight hours, preferably somewhere out there in the wider world, rather than sitting here at the dining room table. It's a start though. But I need to work in colour again!
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My
usual pattern is errands, visits, appointments and jobs throughout the
day then by mid-evening at last having time to think 'what shall I draw?';
hence the fruit bowls, coffee tables and domestic bits and pieces that
have been appearing in this so-called nature diary recently.
Sorry,
but you can't buy this in the shops! A few weeks ago, I was discussing
with my mum a book I remember we had when I was a child, The Classics
Reclassified (1961), by Richard Armour, 'in which
certain famous books are not so much digested as indigested, together
with mercifully brief biographies of their authors, a few unnecessary
footnotes, and questions which it might be helpful not to answer.'
Yes, the book is pretty much as I remember it! As it had no cover, and
it's a Christmas gift for my mum (don't tell her!), I soon designed one
in Microsoft Publisher, using one of Campbell Grant's
cartoons from the book.