Richard Bell's nature sketchbook since 1998
There isn’t room for all that we’d like to include in our Redbox Gallery Christmas show, but I think that we could fit in a few Christmas Creatures:
'T'was the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse . . .'
It’s close to freezing so, despite the crisp winter sunshine, I decided not to to sit and sketch at Newmillerdam this morning but headed off to the top end of the wood, pausing only to photograph Gnome Jeff on the diversion through the arboretum.
Card for an engineering student. We met some well adjusted members of the Wing-Nut family last year.
There’s a bit of a log jam where fallen crack willow debris has formed a leaky dam across Coxley Beck so after recent rain it’s overflowed amongst the alders.
Drawn in Adobe Fresco using the conté crayon, with a few lines ‘scratched’ into it using the eraser.