Fish

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

Today's are carp.

I love them they are beautiful but not very nice to eat, especially jellied cold and whole, but if you guest with a Polish family at Christmas, and they go to the trouble of keeping live fish in the bath for a week, just to insure you get the local traditional food totally fresh, you find a way to eat it and smile!

I also don't recommend naming them when you decant them into a bucket to wash, it really does make eating them harder, for the record they all had good Scottish names like Jimmy and Jinty!

Dragonfly

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

Today's is a dragonfly.

Wax crayon and watercolour flowers

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

My daughter (who is eight) said about her painting, "You have to like it because if you hate, it that means you hate me." I understand, art is so personal, a little bit of your soul, but if you are going to show it to anyone, even close friends, you need to unlearn that. Art is personal to them too, that means what they like can be wildly different to what you do, even if you are very good. Whatever you do is valid regardless of others. And for the record, I love all my daughter's paintings but they, and she would still be good even if I didn't!

I have included my daughter's painting.