Black-headed gull feathers from St Aidan’s and a seabird feather of some kind -possibly a kittiwake or a juvenile gannet? – from Bempton. Freshwater snail shell from St Aidan’s.
Gull Feathers
Author: Richard
Celebration
Celebrating a golden wedding, Lin (my sister) and Dave’s, with their sons Richard, James and Tom plus grandson Dylan supplying the music.
I already knew that my sister during her time at Cambridge had had two close encounters with Prince Charles, himself a student at there at the time: one when she nearly ran in to him on her bike and another when she was next in the queue to him in the bread shop and she bought the muffin that had been next to the one that His Royal Highness bought.
But according to a Golden Wedding ballad performed by the boys there was more to it than that. In their version it’s Charles that runs into Lin to get her attention and Dave – a student in Liverpool – has to leap on his scooter and drive to Cambridge for a dramatic face-off with the Prince on the college croquet lawn.
My brother Bill and I were the grooms at the wedding. Family friend Muriel was convinced that I’d get my hair cut.
More celebrations: happy birthday to Zoe on the Isle of Man.
Slim Sim
Missing out on the line drawing stage and going straight to areas of tone and colour, using the Lasso Fill tool in Clip Studio Paint. Foot drawn from life. The man in the hat reminds me of a slim version of Alastair Sim.
Drawstring Bag
This soft drawstring bag is for my dji Osmo Mobile 3, a kind of Steadicam device for filming with a mobile phone (even with my shaky hands!). I bought it immediately pre-pandemic for a short film I had in mind but two years later I haven’t picked up the pieces of that project.
Summer Pruning
The weight of apples and leafy summer growth proved too much of our Howgate Wonder double cordon and one of the main branches collapsed forwards on the patio. It wasn’t broken so we tied it back in, pruned back the majority of this year’s leafy growth and picked up the eight or so apples that fell off during the process. They’re not ripe but we can stew them with a bit of brown sugar and water.
Backpack
Lowe Alpine Edge 22 backpack.
Shoppers
Shoppers and mannequins at the White Rose this morning.
Ink Bottles
Rohrer’s, Winsor & Newton, Pelikan, Noodler’s, Universal stamp pad, FW Acrylic inks (plus Tipp-Ex and Rowney Soluble Matt Varnish . . . drawn with my Lamy AL-star filled with De Atramentis Document Ink, which dries waterproof so that I could add White Nights watercolour with a Daler Aquafine Sable Round.
Broken Bricks
I open the patio windows and step out barefoot to pick up the bird bath, which is supported by a circle of those broken bricks. I stick to the afternoon shadow from the house but the last step out into the sun on the concrete flags is uncomfortably hot.
Hand and Sandal
It’s too warm to sit in the sun this afternoon so these iPad drawings were made in the studio which I’ve managed to keep a little below 90℉.
