Lamppost

I'm creating a drawing a day, just for the art of it.
Today's is a lamppost. #drawingadayclub

I've lived in two places called Mayfield in my life, the one in Scotland is not too pretty, don't go there, Scotland is full of nice places to go, but the one in South East England is like a Dickens novel made life. My flat (half way between two churches on the high street had a bay window with those pains of glass that look like the bottoms of bottles in it, that was not a gimmick, it dated from the days when that was as big and as flat as they could make glass! I used to sit in the window seat and when it snowed, and the flakes fell in the light of a street lamp a bit like this, you truly walked the pages of a novel from the days when reading novels was sinful and corrupt!

Jumbled boats on the south coast of England.

I'm creating a drawing a day for a year, just for the art of it.

Today's is a jumble of boats on the south coast, UK.

I've done this with my caran d'ache, watersoluable pencils, my dad gave me when I was about 12, they are beloved, and some inktense pencils my dad recommend a few years back. He's really good at the technical aspects of art and always keeps me straight on materials.

Also I can't recommend enough giving kids usable materials, if you can't cut out with the scissors, then giving them to your kid is a way to teach them that they "can't do art."