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!

Decorative storm lanterns

Just in case you thought I only draw from photographs. Drawn from life, my storm lantern collection (three of them).

Permanent pen and wax resist - wax crayon with watercolour over the top.