My map

Here is my contribution to Lindsay's moly, which was sent to David on Monday. You can see the great photograph David took of it here.
I love maps, especially old maps with all the funny graphic marks to describe different aspects of the landscape.
I usually draw a map like this to give people directions to our house.
Now I'm looking forward to seeing Casey's moly next!

Moleskine Exchange update

Well, now I can show the drawing I did in Brian's moley.

With my recent pastel paintings of Donegal, I thought that I should share my favourite part of the world with my fellow moley exchangers.

I was wary of using pastels in the moley as the pages don't have a lot of "tooth" although Brian's pastels were lovely and he managed with the lack of tooth. I thought that I would use my watercolour pencils, which work well on the moley pages. I was pleased that I got quite a watercolour effect, by using a damp brush over areas of my drawing.

Now I'm excitedly waiting for Lindsay's moley to drop through my letterbox.

New Project

I am about to embark on a Moleskine sketchbook exchange. Yellow or Stephanie from A Roker Artist asked me to be part of this. There are six other people taking part too. So hello to David, Vivien, Gesa, Casey, Lindsay, Brian. This is going to be fun, everyone's work is so different and we use different media, I can't wait to see what we do.

I've just made a cover for my moleskine and a pencil sling, so I'm ready to start drawing I'll be posting it off to David on Friday I hope.

The theme for my sketchbook is Close... so I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone does with it.