Thursday, 31 March 2016

Mini daffodils, they have a name!

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

Today's is a drawing of those mini daffodils! I'm sure someone will supply the name.


Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Nile Felucca

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

Nile felucca
These graceful little boats with their asymmetrical sails litter the Nile's banks, competing for space with house boats and hotel balconies.
I took one from Luxor to Banana island, it seemed like easy sailing over very smooth water but the men who sail these boats must know the strange currents in such a big, shifting river.
They make you tea on board, with a tiny gas stove, in a shot glass and medicinally sweet!
Out on the more than a mile wide river it's cool, the only cool outdoor place I experienced in Egypt. When you get to Banana island it's hot again. But as the island is thickly forested with banana trees, it's a shadowy hot unknown on the banks of the Nile, which are cultivated or bare but not thick with trees usually.
You get tiny bananas to eat, a hand span long and sweet, really sweet!
Egypt is a treasure, I loved it, and despite any Egyptology you may have studied, I challenge you to stand under the columns of the template at Karnak and not believe aliens helped build it!

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Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Monday, 28 March 2016

Sunday, 27 March 2016

Geranium, flower.

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

I'm at my in-laws so here is a lovely geranium my mother in law grew.


Saturday, 26 March 2016

Friday, 25 March 2016

London, draw London

I'm creating a drawing a day for the art of it.
Today's is London.
It's all about the sky line with no real details.